[§487G-2] Definitions. As used in this chapter:
"Content" means information, other than login information, that is contained in a protected personal online account, accessible to the account holder, and not publicly available.
"Educational institution" means a person that provides students an organized program of study or training that is academic, technical, trade-oriented, or preparatory for gaining employment and for which the person gives academic credit. "Educational institution" includes:
"Electronic" means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.
"Employee" means an individual who provides services or labor to an employer in exchange for salary, wages, or the equivalent or, for an unpaid intern, academic credit or occupational experience. "Employee" includes:
"Employer" means a person that provides salary, wages, or the equivalent to an employee in exchange for services or labor or engages the services or labor of an unpaid intern. "Employer" includes an agent or designee of the employer.
"Login information" means a username and password, password, or other means or credentials of authentication required to access or control:
"Login requirement" means a requirement that login information be provided before a protected personal online account or electronic device can be accessed or controlled.
"Online" means accessible by means of a computer network or the Internet.
"Person" means an individual; estate; business or nonprofit entity; public corporation; government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality; or other legal entity.
"Protected personal online account" means any online account maintained by an employee or a student, including social media or electronic mail accounts, that is protected by a login requirement. "Protected personal online account" does not include an account, or the discrete portion of an account, that was:
"Publicly available" means available to the general public.
"Record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.
"Specifically identified content" means data or information stored in a protected personal online account that is identified with sufficient particularity to distinguish the discrete individual pieces of content being sought from a substantial percentage of other data or information stored in the account with which it may share similar characteristics. The identification may be based on identification or verification by an individual creator, poster, sender, viewer or recipient of characteristics of that content that in the aggregate allow the employee or student requested to provide access to that content to distinguish that content with reasonable certainty from any other data or information stored in the account with which it may share similar characteristics.
"State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
"Student" means an individual who participates in an educational institution's organized program of study or training. "Student" includes: