What California Bot Disclosure Law - SB 1001 (Effective July 1, 2019) requires
California Senate Bill 1001 (Hertzberg, 2018) was signed by Governor Brown on September 28, 2018 and took effect July 1, 2019 as the first US state law requiring bot disclosure in consumer-facing interactions. SB 1001 is codified at California Business and Professions Code 17940-17943. The core prohibition is that it is unlawful for any person to use a bot to communicate or interact with another person in California online, with the intent to mislead the other person about its artificial identity for the purpose of knowingly deceiving the other person about the content of the communication in order to (1) incentivise a purchase or sale of goods or services in a commercial transaction OR (2) influence a vote in an election. The Law defines bot as an automated online account where all or substantially all of the actions or posts of that account are not the result of a person. A person using a bot does not violate the Law if the person discloses that it is a bot in a manner that is clear, conspicuous, and reasonably designed to inform persons with whom the bot communicates or interacts that it is a bot. SB 1001 is the foundational US state law on AI disclosure and informed subsequent state laws including Utah AIPA (2024), California AB 2655 (2024), and the federal AI disclosure proposals.
Pillar: AI Governance & Law · Authority: California State Legislature - Senate Bill 1001 (Hertzberg), signed by Governor Edmund G. Brown September 28, 2018, effective July 1, 2019; codified at California Business and Professions Code 17940-17943 · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1001
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- California Senate Bill 1001 (Hertzberg, 2018), signed by Governor Edmund G. Brown September 28, 2018, effective July 1, 2019; codified at California Business and Professions Code 17940-17943
- California SB 1001 bot definition: a bot is an automated online account where all or substantially all of the actions or posts of that account are not the result of a person
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