Tracks devices, in Washington

Chapter 19.270 RCW · Read the law's page

• Do not transmit, or procure the transmission of, software to a user's computer without the owner's or operator's authorization, knowing or consciously avoiding knowing that it modifies through deceptive means the browser start page, the default provider or web proxy used to access or search the internet, the bookmarks, or the toolbars or buttons.
• Do not transmit, or procure the transmission of, software to a user's computer without the owner's or operator's authorization, knowing or consciously avoiding knowing that it collects personally identifiable information through intentionally deceptive means, by keystroke logging or by extracting it from the hard drive, or that it prevents through intentionally deceptive means the user's reasonable efforts to block the installation or execution of software or to disable it.
• Do not transmit, or procure the transmission of, software to a user's computer without the owner's or operator's authorization, knowing or consciously avoiding knowing that it misrepresents that software will be uninstalled or disabled by the user's action, offers an option to decline installation while the installation proceeds anyway, or falsely represents that software has been disabled.
• Do not transmit, or procure the transmission of, software to a user's computer without the owner's or operator's authorization, knowing or consciously avoiding knowing that it removes, disables or renders inoperative security, antispyware or antivirus software through intentionally deceptive means, or disables that software's automatic updating through intentionally deceptive means.
• Do not transmit, or procure the transmission of, software to a user's computer without the owner's or operator's authorization, knowing or consciously avoiding knowing that it opens multiple, sequential, stand-alone advertisements a reasonable user cannot close without turning off the computer or closing the browser, uses the computer in a group attack such as a denial-of-service attack, or relays commercial email or a computer virus from the computer when a person other than the owner or operator initiates the transmission.
• Do not transmit, or procure the transmission of, software to a user's computer without the owner's or operator's authorization, knowing or consciously avoiding knowing that it uses the computer's modem or internet service to cause damage or unauthorized financial charges, or modifies the internet settings that protect the owner's information in order to make unauthorized use of personally identifiable information, or modifies security settings in order to cause damage to a computer.
• If you are not the owner or operator of a computer, do not induce the owner or operator to install a software component by deceptively misrepresenting that installation is necessary for maintenance, update, repair, security, privacy, the proper operation of the computer or opening content, or by a pop-up, web page or message that deceptively misrepresents its source, and do not deceptively cause a software component to execute in a way that violates RCW 19.270.040.
• Rely on the RCW 19.270.050 exemption from RCW 19.270.020(5) through (11) and RCW 19.270.040 only when you are a telecommunications carrier, cable operator, computer hardware or software provider, or provider of information service or interactive computer service, and the monitoring or interaction is for network or computer security, diagnostics, technical support, maintenance, repair, authorized updates, authorized remote system management, or detection or prevention of unauthorized or fraudulent use.