Recently in the State of Florida new “digital assets” protection legislation has passed through a review committee. On Tuesday the Florida Senate Judiciary Committee approved SB 494 unanimously. The bill will give people the power to choose someone that will have access to and control over their online accounts. According to a staff analysis digital assets can include “emails, text messages, online photographs, documents stored in the cloud, electronic bank statements, and other electronic communications or records.” The new bill has been reworded after it failed to pass last session when it faced opposition from Facebook and Google. This new legislation will require that a person gives “explicit consent” to someone else having access to and control over their digital assets.
See Jim Rosica, Digital Assets Bill Breezes Through First Committee, Florida Politics, November 17, 2015.
