Electronic toll collection systems: information use.

Existing law authorizes the development and implementation of various electronic bridge and highway toll collection mechanisms. Existing law prohibits a transportation agency, as defined, from selling or providing personally identifiable information of a person obtained pursuant to the person's participation in an electronic toll collection system or use of a toll facility that uses an electronic toll collection system, subject to specified exceptions. Existing law requires a transportation agency that uses an electronic toll collection system to establish a privacy policy regarding the collection and storage of personally identifiable information in that regard, to provide the policy to subscribers, and to post the policy on its Internet Web site. Existing law permits a transportation agency to share data collected via an electronic toll collection system with another transportation agency solely to comply with interoperablility specifications and standards for electronic toll collection devices. Existing law also permits a transportation agency to perform billing and other financial functions necessary to operate and manage toll facilities. This bill would permit a transportation agency or its designee to share data regarding a vehicle's use of toll facilities with another transportation agency, whether in the state or not, solely to comply with the above specifications and standards. This bill would also permit a transportation agency to share specified information with transportation agencies in other states as part of a nationwide interoperability toll collection program. This bill would also permit a transportation agency to perform toll collection and violation enforcement functions required to operate and manage toll facilities, whether in the state or not.