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R.I. Gen. Laws secs. 6-48-7, 6-48-8 · Read the law's page

• Do not intentionally communicate or otherwise make available to the general public all or part of an individual's social security number (section 6-48-8(a)(1)).
• Do not print all or part of an individual's social security number on any card the individual must use to access the products or services you provide (section 6-48-8(a)(2)).
• Do not require an individual to transmit all or part of a social security number over the Internet unless the connection is secure or the number is encrypted, and do not require an individual to use all or part of one to access an Internet website unless a password, unique personal identification number or other authentication device is also required (section 6-48-8(a)(3) and (4)).
• Do not print all or part of an individual's social security number on materials mailed to the individual unless state or federal law requires it; a number that may be mailed, such as one on an application or enrollment form, may not be printed on a postcard or other mailer not requiring an envelope, or be visible on the envelope or without opening it (section 6-48-8(a)(5)).

R.I. Gen. Laws secs. 6-52-1 to 6-52-4 · Read the law's page

• Take reasonable steps to destroy, or arrange for the destruction of, a customer's personal information within your custody and control that you no longer retain, by shredding, erasing, or otherwise destroying or modifying it to make it unreadable or indecipherable through any means.
• Destroy the information to ensure the security and confidentiality of customer personal information, to protect against any reasonably foreseeable threats or hazards to its security or integrity, and to protect against unauthorized access to or use of it that could result in substantial harm or inconvenience to any customer.
• This binds a business: any sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, association, limited liability company or other group, however organized and whether or not organized to operate at a profit, including the state, a state agency or a political subdivision that destroys records. It does not bind a financial institution subject to the Gramm Leach Bliley Act and a listed federal regulator or the Department of Business Regulation, a health insurer, non-profit hospital, medical service corporation or health care facility subject to the privacy and security standards of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, a consumer report agency in compliance with the Federal Credit Reporting Act, or a business that contracts with another business to destroy the information and has physical evidence of that contract.

R.I. Gen. Laws §§ 17-30-1 to 17-30-4 · Read the law's page

• Do not distribute synthetic media of a candidate's appearance, action, or speech within ninety days of an election if you know or should know it is deceptive and fraudulent, unless it carries a disclosure that it was manipulated or generated by artificial intelligence, in the size and timing this chapter specifies.
• A depicted candidate may seek an injunction and sue for damages plus attorney's fees; the burden is clear and convincing evidence.
• Broadcasters, qualifying news publications that flag the media as inaccurate, satire and parody, and interactive computer services are exempt from this chapter.

P.L. 2026, ch. 223 (Genetic Information Privacy Act), R.I. Gen. Laws secs. 6-63-1 to 6-63-7 · Read the law's page

• If you are a direct-to-consumer genetic testing company, give Rhode Island consumers a plain-language summary of your privacy practices and a prominent, easily accessible privacy notice covering your data collection, consent, use, access, disclosure, maintenance, transfer, security, retention and deletion practices and how to file a complaint alleging a violation of the chapter, plus a notice that deidentified genetic or phenotypic information may be shared with third parties for research (section 6-63-3(a)(1)).
• Obtain a consumer's express consent, in response to a clear, meaningful and prominent notice and never by inaction or through a dark pattern, before you collect, use or disclose their genetic data, and obtain separate and express consent for each use of the data collected through the product or service (including who has access to it, how it may be shared and the specific purposes), for storing the biological sample after the initial testing, for each use beyond the primary purpose and inherent contextual uses, for each transfer or disclosure to a third party other than a service provider (naming the third party), and for marketing, or facilitating marketing, based on the data (section 6-63-3(a)(2)).
• Give a consumer effective mechanisms, without unnecessary steps and at least one through your primary medium of communication, to revoke consent. Honor a revocation as soon as practicable and no later than 30 days after it, and destroy the biological sample within 30 days of receiving a revocation of consent to store it (section 6-63-3(a) and (b)).
• Implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices to protect a consumer's genetic data against unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure (section 6-63-3(c)(1)).
• Develop procedures and practices that let a consumer easily access their genetic data, delete their account and genetic data (except data you must retain to comply with legal and regulatory requirements) and have their biological sample destroyed (section 6-63-3(c)(2)).
• Do not disclose a consumer's genetic data to an entity responsible for administering or making decisions about health insurance, life insurance, long-term care insurance, disability insurance or employment, or to an entity that advises one, unless section 6-63-3(e)(2) applies: the entity is not primarily engaged in those functions, receives the data in a different capacity, and bars any part of it that administers, advises on or decides those matters from accessing the data or sample.
• Do not discriminate against a consumer for exercising rights under the chapter, whether by denying goods, services or benefits, charging different prices or rates, providing a different level or quality, suggesting any of these, or treating the exercise of rights as a basis for suspicion of criminal wrongdoing or unlawful conduct. This duty binds a person or a public entity (section 6-63-3(d)).
• Contract with a service provider that collects, transports or analyzes a consumer's biological sample or genetic data for you so that it may not retain, use or disclose the sample, extracted genetic material, genetic data or any information about the consumer's identity for any purpose other than the contracted services, and may not associate or combine them with information it receives from or collects for others (section 6-63-2(10)).

R.I. Gen. Laws secs. 11-49.3-2, 11-49.3-5 · Read the law's page

• Implement and maintain a risk-based information security program with reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to your size and scope, the nature of the information, and the purpose for which it was collected, to protect the information from unauthorized access, use, modification, destruction, or disclosure and to preserve its confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
• Do not retain personal information longer than reasonably required to provide the requested services, meet the purpose for which it was collected, or comply with a written retention policy or a legal requirement; destroy it securely, for example by shredding, pulverization, incineration, or erasure, regardless of the medium it is stored in.
• If you disclose personal information about a Rhode Island resident to a nonaffiliated third party, require by written contract that the third party implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices of the same kind, appropriate to its own size and scope, the nature of the information, and the purpose for which it was collected.
• This binds a municipal agency, a state agency, or a person, defined broadly to include an individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, association, corporation, joint venture, business, legal entity, trust, estate, cooperative, or other commercial entity, that stores, collects, processes, maintains, acquires, uses, owns, or licenses personal information about a Rhode Island resident.
• A reckless violation of this duty is a civil violation of up to $100 per record; a knowing and willful violation is up to $200 per record. Only the Attorney General may bring an action.