California Assemblyman Joel Anderson, a Republican from El Cajon, is proposing in a measure dubbed "AB-255."
This bill would prohibit an operator, as defined, of a commercial
Internet Web site or online service that makes a virtual globe
browser available to members of the public from providing aerial or
satellite photographs or imagery of places in this state that have
been identified on the Internet Web site by the operator as a school,
place of worship, or government or medical building or facility
unless those photographs or images have been blurred. The bill would
also prohibit that operator from providing street view photographs or
imagery of those buildings and facilities. An operator that violates
these provisions would be guilty of a crime and subject to a fine of
not less than $250,000 for each day the operator is in violation of
these provisions. In addition, an operator who is an executive
officer or member of a board of directors who knowingly violates
these provisions would also be subject to imprisonment in the state
prison for one, 2, or 3 years.
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