Instruments
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LexLint note, which carries what it requires and what it flags on.
Adult content age verification (AV)
Requires covered internet platforms that create, host, or make available material harmful to minors (obscene material or child pornography) to perform reasonable age verification of users, using a driver's license, identification card, passport, an age restricted credit or debit card, or another reliable method.
Exempts general internet service providers, search engines, and cloud service providers, and applies only to minors who are Wyoming residents or present in the state for at least 31 consecutive days.
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Breach notification
cite Wyo. Stat. Ann. secs. 40-12-501 to 40-12-511
stage IMMINENT commencement not set
source official Wyoming statute text, Wyo. Stat. Ann. secs. 40-12-501 to 40-12-511, Wyoming Legislature website (compressed statutes, Title 40)
An individual or commercial entity that conducts business in Wyoming and owns or licenses computerized data including personal identifying information about a Wyoming resident must, on becoming aware of a breach of the security of the system, conduct a reasonable and prompt investigation, and if misuse has occurred or is reasonably likely, give notice as soon as possible to each affected resident; timing is a risk-of-harm-triggered standard, not a fixed day count.
Personal identifying information means a name combined with one or more data elements defined by cross-reference to Wyoming's criminal identity-theft statute, Wyo. Stat. Ann. sec. 6-3-901(b), which includes unique biometric data generated from measurements or analysis of human body characteristics for authentication purposes, medical information, and health insurance information, alongside the standard Social Security, driver's license, and financial account elements; none of these carries an exclusion for data derived from a photograph, video, or audio recording.
Personal identifying information excludes information contained in government records or widely distributed media lawfully made available to the general public, regardless of its source. Substitute notice is available when the cost of direct notice would exceed $10,000 for a Wyoming-based entity or $250,000 for an out-of-state entity, or when the affected class exceeds 10,000 Wyoming-based persons or 500,000 out-of-state persons.
This document did not independently trace the original enacting session law's date, and the codified page prints no separate commencement subsection within this article, so no effective_date is recorded here.
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Enforcement supervision
cite Wyo. Stat. Ann. sec. 40-12-502(f)
stage IMMINENT commencement not set
source official Wyoming statute text, Wyo. Stat. Ann. sec. 40-12-502(f), Wyoming Legislature website (compressed statutes, Title 40)
The Attorney General may bring an action in law or equity to address a violation of Wyoming's breach-notification statute and to recover damages; the provision is not exclusive and does not relieve a covered person from any other applicable law.
Unlike Pennsylvania's, South Dakota's, or West Virginia's equivalents, this statute contains no deeming clause characterizing a notice violation as a violation of Wyoming's general Consumer Protection Act, Wyo. Stat. Ann. secs. 40-12-101 to 40-12-116, so the indirect private-action route this wave checks for is not opened at all here, rather than opened and then foreclosed.
The Consumer Protection Act does carry its own real private right of action, Wyo. Stat. Ann. sec. 40-12-108, arming a person relying on an uncured unlawful deceptive trade practice with an action for actual damages, but that right runs only to a violation under the Consumer Protection Act itself, and nothing in the breach statute invokes it.
This document records private_right_of_action as false for this instrument on that basis: absence of an incorporating clause, not an explicit foreclosure clause.
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