Definitions

As used in this Act:

(a)entity includes corporations, business trusts, estates, partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, limited liability companies, associations, organizations, joint ventures, governments, governmental subdivisions, agencies, or instrumentalities, or any other legal entity, whether for profit or not-for-profit;

(b)individual means a natural person;

(c)identifying information means any information that can be used to access an individual’s financial accounts or to obtain goods and services, including, but not limited to, address, birth date, social security number, driver’s license number, non-driver governmental identification number, telephone number, bank account number, student identification, credit or debit card number, personal identification number, unique biometric data, employee or payroll number, automated or electronic signature, computer image, photograph, screen name or password. The term does not include COL 3/18/2024 CH. 46 FORGERY, FRAUDULENT PRACTICES AND TELEPHONE RECORDS information that is lawfully obtained from publicly available information, or from federal or local government records lawfully made available to the general public;

(d)false pretenses means the representation of a fact or circumstance which is not true and is calculated to mislead;

(e)webpage means a location that has a single uniform resource locator

(URL)with respect to the world wide web, or another location that can be accessed on the internet.