Legislation Details

File #: Int 1154-2018    Version: Name: Encrypting website exchanges or transfers.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
File created: 10/17/2018 In control: Committee on Technology
On agenda: 10/17/2018 Final action: 8/28/2020
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to encrypting website exchanges or transfers
Sponsors: Karen Koslowitz, Mark Gjonaj , Robert F. Holden, Ben Kallos, Kalman Yeger , Paul A. Vallone, Farah N. Louis, Inez D. Barron, Carlina Rivera
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1154-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1154, 3. Int. No. 1154, 4. October 17, 2018 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10/17/18, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - October 17, 2018, 7. Committee Report 12/13/18, 8. Hearing Testimony 12/13/18, 9. Hearing Transcript 12/13/18, 10. Proposed Int. No. 1154-A - 7/28/20, 11. Committee Report 7/28/20, 12. Hearing Transcript 7/28/20, 13. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 14. July 28, 2020 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 15. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 7-28-20, 16. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - July 28, 2020, 17. Int. No. 1154-A (FINAL), 18. Fiscal Impact Statement, 19. Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor, 20. Local Law 79

Int. No. 1154-A

 

By Council Members Koslowitz, Gjonaj, Holden, Kallos, Yeger, Vallone, Louis, Barron and Rivera

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to encrypting website exchanges or transfers

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

                     Section 1. Chapter 8 of title 23 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to add a new section 23-805, to read as follows:

§ 23-805 Website encryption. Every website maintained by or on behalf of the city or a city agency shall encrypt all exchanges and transfers between a web server, maintained by or on behalf of the city or a city agency, and a web browser: (i) of hypertext; or (ii) of electronic information, and require web browsers to request such encrypted exchange or transfer at all times for such websites, provided that such encryption shall not be required if such exchanges or transfers are conducted in a manner that provides at least an equivalent level of confidentiality, data integrity and authentication.

                     § 2. This local law takes effect six months after it becomes law.

 

BJR/IB

LS 7988

2/19/2020 at 6:44pm