Minnesota Statutes 13.356 – Personal Contact and Online Account Information
(a) The following data on an individual collected, maintained, or received by a government entity for notification purposes or as part of a subscription list for an entity’s electronic periodic publications as requested by the individual are private data on individuals:
Terms Used In Minnesota Statutes 13.356
- Data on individuals: means all government data in which any individual is or can be identified as the subject of that data, unless the appearance of the name or other identifying data can be clearly demonstrated to be only incidental to the data and the data are not accessed by the name or other identifying data of any individual. See Minnesota Statutes 13.02
- Government entity: means a state agency, statewide system, or political subdivision. See Minnesota Statutes 13.02
- individual: includes a parent or guardian or an individual acting as a parent or guardian in the absence of a parent or guardian, except that the responsible authority shall withhold data from parents or guardians, or individuals acting as parents or guardians in the absence of parents or guardians, upon request by the minor if the responsible authority determines that withholding the data would be in the best interest of the minor. See Minnesota Statutes 13.02
- State agency: means the state, the University of Minnesota, and any office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, commission, authority, district or agency of the state. See Minnesota Statutes 13.02
(1) telephone number;
(2) email address; and
(3) Internet user name, password, Internet protocol address, and any other similar data related to the individual’s online account or access procedures.
(b) Section 13.04, subdivision 2, does not apply to data classified under paragraph (a). Paragraph (a) does not apply to data submitted by an individual to the Campaign Finance Board to meet the legal requirements imposed by chapter 10A, to data submitted for purposes of making a public comment, or to data in a state agency‘s rulemaking email list.
(c) Data provided under paragraph (a) may only be used for the specific purpose for which the individual provided the data.