AI Laws in New York, New York
AI Laws USA tracks 71 AI rules that apply to people and businesses in New York, New York: 10+ federal rules, 41 New York state-level rules, and 20 local New York ordinances. Coverage is strongest on automated decision-making, government use of AI, AI disclosure and transparency, and consumer protection. 37 of these rules are already in effect. Each entry below links to its official source.
New York local AI rules
20 local AI rules specific to New York, New York.
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In effect Strength: stronger
NYC DOE Generative AI Moratorium (K-8, 2026-27)
New York City, NY · Effective September 2, 2026 · NYC DOE Chancellor Regulation — Generative AI Moratorium (Sept. 2, 2026); announced by Mayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels imposed a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI for grades pre-K (2-K) through 8th grade across New York City public schools, effective for the 2026-2027 school year. Affects approximately 600,000 students — nearly two-thirds of the city's 900,000-student enrollment. Companion chatbots prohibited across all grades. Over 38 previously-allowed programs discontinued or disabled. Five limited AI pilots allowed for up to 50,000 high school students in general education; all high schoolers gain twice-yearly AI literacy classes. A new Technology in Schools Coalition will study outcomes and publish recommendations. The nation's largest school district becomes the most restrictive on student AI use in the country.
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Proposed / pending
NYC AI rental listing disclosure proposal (Mamdani, 2026)
New York City, NY · NYC Mayor Mamdani AI rental listing disclosure proposal, introduced July 2026
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani proposed a rule in July 2026 requiring landlords and rental listing platforms to disclose when artificial intelligence tools are used to generate, rank, or filter rental listings. The proposal is part of a broader Mamdani housing-affordability agenda and reflects growing concern about AI tools that use algorithmic pricing and screening to affect housing access. The proposal was pending City Council introduction as of the date of this entry.
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Proposed / pending
Office of Artificial Intelligence Oversight
New York City · NYC Int 0919-2026
Would establish an Office of Artificial Intelligence Oversight within the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. The office would investigate complaints about AI systems violating consumer protection laws, recommend enforcement actions, maintain a public complaint portal, run AI-harm consumer awareness campaigns, and propose rules clarifying how existing consumer protections apply to AI.
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Proposed / pending
AI Gendered Impact Assessment + Interagency Taskforce
New York City · NYC Int 0287-2026
Requires the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications to conduct biennial assessments of whether algorithmic tools using gender data may create disparate impacts. Establishes an interagency task force meeting at least twice yearly to evaluate how AI affects city employees' employment outcomes by gender (job displacement, role changes). Task force draws from administrative services, worker protection, human rights, technology, and gender equity agencies.
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Proposed / pending
Ban biometric recognition in public accommodations (Ban The Scan)
New York City · NYC Int 0213-2026
Would make it illegal for places of public accommodation (stores, restaurants, music venues, theaters, etc.) to use biometric recognition systems to verify or identify customers without notice and prior written consent. Requires written policies governing use of collected biometric data and procedures for customers to request erasure of their biometric information.
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Proposed / pending
Limit facial recognition in residential buildings (Ban The Scan)
New York City · NYC Int 0428-2026
Would prohibit owners of multiple dwellings from installing or using biometric recognition systems that identify tenants or their guests. Modifies existing smart-access regulations and adds new restrictions on facial recognition and related biometric technologies in residential settings.
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Status unknown
NYC resolution urging NY State to pass Advanced AI Licensing Act (A.3356)
New York City · NYC Res 0175-2026
Resolution urging the NY State Legislature to enact, and Governor Hochul to sign, the Advanced AI Licensing Act (A.3356) — which would establish state oversight through the Department of State, require licensing for high-risk AI systems, and ban particularly dangerous applications like autonomous weapons.
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Repealed / replaced
NYC LL144 (original draft)
New York City, NY · NYC Int. 1894-2020 (original) — narrowed before enactment as Local Law 144 of 2021
NYC's original Int. 1894-2020 draft was substantially broader than the enacted Local Law 144. The narrowed final version took effect January 1, 2023 (DCWP enforcement began July 5, 2023 after final rules) and is the most-cited city AI law globally — original-vs-enacted scope shift is studied widely.
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Proposed / pending
NYC Int 1003-2024
New York, NY · NYC Int 1003-2024
NYC Int 1003-2024 would amend the admin code to create an AI working group at the Commission on Human Rights to study AI's impact on employment and AEDT effects on protected classes — complementing Local Law 144.
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Proposed / pending
NYC Int 1196-2025
New York, NY · NYC Int 1196-2025
NYC Int 1196-2025 proposes to amend the administrative code of the City of New York to prohibit the unauthorized depiction of public officials by artificial intelligence; it is not about additional requirements on city agencies' use of AI tools.
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In effect Strength: stronger
NYC Biometric Identifier Law (LL3)
New York City, NY · Effective July 9, 2021 · NYC Admin. Code §§ 22-1201–22-1205 (Local Law 3 of 2021)
NYC retail stores, restaurants, and entertainment venues that collect customers' biometric data (face scans, fingerprints, iris scans, voiceprints) must post clear signs at entrances disclosing it. Selling or otherwise profiting from customers' biometric data is flatly banned. Customers can sue: $500 per signage or negligent-sale violation and $5,000 per intentional or reckless sale, plus attorneys' fees.
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In effect Strength: moderate
NYC Algorithmic Tools Reporting (LL35)
New York City, NY · Effective January 15, 2022 · NYC Admin. Code § 3-119.5 (Local Law 35 of 2022)
Every NYC agency must publicly report, each year, every algorithmic tool it used to make or assist decisions that materially affect the public's rights, benefits, or access to services. Reports must describe each tool's purpose, the data it uses, and any vendor involvement, and are published as an open dataset.
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In effect Strength: limited
NYC AI Action Plan
New York City, NY · Enacted October 16, 2023 · NYC OTI, AI Action Plan (Oct. 2023)
NYC's AI Action Plan is the city's roadmap for responsible government AI use, with 37 action items covering AI principles, agency guidance, procurement standards, risk assessment, and public engagement. It is policy guidance from the mayor's Office of Technology and Innovation rather than binding law; annual progress reports have followed.
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In effect Strength: moderate
NYC GUARD Act (Gov't AI Accountability)
New York City, NY · Effective December 26, 2025 · NYC Council Int. Nos. 199-A, 926-A, 1024-A (GUARD Act, passed Nov. 25, 2025; lapsed into law Dec. 26, 2025; Intro 1024-A = Local Law 195 of 2025)
The NYC City Council unanimously passed three bills on November 25, 2025 known as the GUARD Act (Guaranteeing Unbiased AI Regulation and Disclosure), creating independent oversight of city government AI use. The package creates an independent Office of Algorithmic Data Accountability, sets mandatory fairness-testing and transparency standards for all agency AI tools, and requires a public registry of every AI system that has undergone a pre-deployment assessment. Because Mayor Adams neither signed nor vetoed the bills within the 30-day window, they lapsed into law on December 26, 2025. Intro 1024-A was assigned Local Law 195 of 2025; the Local Law numbers for Intros 199-A and 926-A still await Legistar confirmation.
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In effect Strength: limited
NYC Public Schools Guidance on AI
New York, NY · Effective September 1, 2025 · NYC Public Schools Guidance on AI (2025-09-01)
NYC DOE districtwide guidance lists never-allowed uses, then conditional uses with safeguards. Staff barred from entering PII or sensitive info into GenAI tools not approved through ERMA review.
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In effect Strength: moderate
NYC EO 3 / Citywide AI Policy
New York City, NY · Effective January 19, 2022 · N.Y.C. Exec. Order No. 3 (Jan. 19, 2022)
Mayoral executive order consolidating NYC's technology agencies by redesignating the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications as the Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI), which oversees the Mayor's Office of Data Analytics, the Chief Technology Officer, the Office of Information Privacy, NYC Cyber Command, NYC 311, and the Algorithms Management and Policy office.
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In effect Strength: stronger
NYC AEDT Bias Audit Law (LL 144)
New York City, NY · Effective January 1, 2023 · NYC Local Law 144 of 2021; NYC Admin. Code §§ 20-870 to 20-874
Employers and employment agencies in New York City may not use AI hiring or promotion tools unless the tool has passed an independent bias audit within the past year. Job candidates must be told an automated tool is being used and can request information about the data it relies on.
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In effect Strength: limited
NYPD POST Act
New York City, NY · Effective July 15, 2020 · NYC Local Law 65 of 2020, as amended 2025
The POST Act requires the NYPD to publicly disclose what surveillance technologies it uses and publish impact and use policies for each one. 2025 amendments added facial recognition audits, itemized technology inventories, and disclosure of outside entities that receive NYPD surveillance data.
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Proposed / pending
NYC AI Oversight Office Bill
New York City, NY · N.Y.C. Council Int. No. 0919-2026 (pending)
A pending New York City Council bill would write an office of artificial intelligence oversight into the City Charter and Administrative Code, building on the city's 2025 GUARD Act package on algorithmic accountability for city agencies. Awaiting committee action.
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In effect Strength: limited
NYC LL 60 (delivery robots)
New York City · Effective January 1, 2024 · N.Y.C. Admin. Code § 19-176.4; Local Law 60 of 2023
New York City authorized a pilot framework for sidewalk delivery robots ('motorized assistive devices'), giving DOT rulemaking authority over speed, weight, sidewalk vs. bike-lane use, and operator registration. The DOT pilot launched in 2024 with explicit weight caps (550 lb) and 12 mph maximum speed.
New York-level AI rules most relevant to New York
41 New York state rules apply to residents and businesses in New York. Showing the 8 most relevant to New York's local picture; 33 more are on the New York jurisdiction page.
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In effect Strength: limited
SUNY Systemwide Artificial Intelligence Policy
State University of New York (SUNY) · Effective April 30, 2026 · SUNY Systemwide Artificial Intelligence Policy
SUNY's Board of Trustees approved a systemwide AI policy requiring all 64 campuses to adopt AI governance, bias evaluation, data-privacy safeguards, and heightened oversight of high-risk systems affecting students by December 31, 2026.
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Enacted (not yet in effect) Strength: limited
NY PSC utility AI inquiry (Case 26-M-0552)
New York · Enacted September 17, 2026 · N.Y. Pub. Serv. Comm'n, Case 26-M-0552, Order Instituting Proceeding on Utility Use of Artificial Intelligence (Sept. 17, 2026 session)
New York's Public Service Commission ordered the state's regulated utilities to file a complete inventory of how they use artificial intelligence and to disclose the policies and procedures that govern it. The commission said AI systems can hallucinate, show bias, have privacy and cybersecurity problems, and create growing dependency on AI vendors, which could threaten the safety and reliability of critical infrastructure. Utilities must file an initial inventory within 60 days and report twice a year after that, and the commission will judge their safeguards against common AI governance frameworks.
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In effect Strength: limited
Acceptable Use of Artificial Intelligence Technologies (NYS-
New York · Effective January 8, 2024 · Acceptable Use of Artificial Intelligence Technologies (NYS-P24-001)
New York's Office of Information Technology Services set enterprise rules requiring state agencies to conduct NIST-based risk assessments, maintain human oversight of AI decisions affecting the public, and disclose AI chatbots as non-human.
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Proposed / pending
New York Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act (2026)
New York · N.Y. S. 9934 / A. 11292 (2025-2026 Sess.) — New York Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act (passed legislature; awaiting gubernatorial action)
New York's Legislature has passed the Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act, S9934 / A11292, and sent it to Governor Kathy Hochul. It is the first bill of its kind in the country. The rule is simple to state: any web crawler that accesses a covered news source must disclose its identity and its purpose, either before or at the time of access. Deploying a 'stealth crawler' in a way that damages or economically harms a news publisher is a civil violation carrying penalties of up to $15,000 PER DAY. The bill is framed as protection for local journalism against AI companies scraping news content without identifying themselves. It has drawn organized opposition from an unusual direction. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy & Technology and more than a dozen other civil society organizations — nineteen groups in all — wrote to Governor Hochul urging a veto. Their argument is that although the bill is presented as a journalism measure, it effectively DEANONYMIZES AND CRIMINALIZES AUTOMATED ACCESS TO THE OPEN WEB: it would threaten anonymous access to information, compel speculative disclosures about purpose, and expose researchers, journalists, watchdogs and ordinary internet users to liability simply for using automated tools to read publicly available pages. This entry is recorded as PROPOSED. The bill is not law, the Governor had not acted as of mid-September 2026, and action was widely expected to wait until after the November 7, 2026 gubernatorial election.
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Enacted (not yet in effect) Strength: stronger
New York SAFE for Kids Act final rules (2026)
New York · Effective January 25, 2027 · N.Y. Off. of the Att'y Gen., SAFE for Kids Act Final Rules (July 28, 2026) (Act eff. Jan. 25, 2027)
New York's Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act got its final implementing rules on July 28, 2026, released jointly by Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Kathy Hochul. The Act itself takes effect January 25, 2027. What makes these rules significant is that they put numbers on age assurance where almost every other regime says only that a method must be 'reasonable.' The rules set an Accuracy Minimum: a method's false positive rate must be no more than 0.1% for minors aged 0 to 7, 1% for ages 8 to 13, 2% for ages 14 to 15, 8% for age 16 and 15% for age 17, excluding cases where a user refuses or fails to provide data and cases where the result is inconclusive. The method must also detect attempts to circumvent it at a rate of 98% or better. A second standard, the Total Accuracy Minimum, applies the same percentage ceilings to false positives and inconclusive outcomes combined — closing the obvious gap, since a method could otherwise hit its accuracy target by returning 'inconclusive' whenever it was unsure. Social media companies must pick a method meeting these rates, test it annually, and keep the test results for at least five years. The graduated thresholds are the design insight: being wrong about a seven-year-old is treated as far more serious than being wrong about a seventeen-year-old.
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Proposed / pending
MTA AI Video Analytics Solicitation for Subway Camera Monito
New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) · MTA AI Video Analytics Solicitation for Subway Camera Monitoring (Suspicious/Problematic Behavior Detection)
The MTA solicited vendors for AI computer-vision software to analyze feeds from its 15,000+ subway cameras to flag weapons, unattended items, and dangerous behavior, while stating facial recognition will not be used.
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In effect Strength: limited
NY Bar AI Report
NY · Effective April 6, 2024 · NYSBA AI Task Force Report (Apr. 6, 2024)
The New York State Bar adopted recommendations on AI in legal practice covering competence, confidentiality, supervision, candor to the court, and advertising — explicitly noting that 'hallucination' sanctions in Mata v. Avianca apply to all New York lawyers using AI.
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In effect Strength: limited
NY AV testing pilot
New York · Effective April 20, 2017 · Part FF, Ch. 55, Laws of 2017 (uncodified session law)
New York requires AV operators to obtain DMV pilot-program authorization, maintain a licensed human safety driver behind the wheel, post a $5 million insurance bond, and coordinate with State Police for each test deployment. New York remains one of the most restrictive states — fully driverless operation is not authorized as of 2026.
Federal AI rules that apply in New York, New York
These federal rules apply everywhere in the United States, including New York, New York. Showing the 10 strongest and most recent.
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In effect Strength: stronger
TVA data center capacity commitment charge (2026)
Tennessee Valley Authority · Effective October 1, 2026 · Tenn. Valley Auth. Bd. of Dirs. — Data Center Capacity Commitment Charge (approved Aug. 20, 2026; eff. Oct. 1, 2026)
The Tennessee Valley Authority's Board of Directors approved a separate, higher wholesale rate for data centers on August 20, 2026, effective October 1. New or expanding data center loads above 5 megawatts now fall under a Capacity Commitment Charge attached to TVA's data center rate schedules, designed to recover the incremental capacity costs those customers impose on the system. The headline figures are substantial: upfront capacity commitment charges of roughly $1.5 million per megawatt, payable over three to five years, and an all-in average billing increase for data center customers of about 10%, phased in across three consecutive fiscal years. The stated purpose is to keep residential rates low while still serving growing data center demand. TVA matters here out of proportion to a single utility. It is a federal corporate agency supplying power across seven states, so this is not a state rate case but a regional cost-allocation decision reaching a large share of the Southeast — and TVA is among the first large US utilities to adopt a tariff aimed specifically at AI-driven load. Where most 2026 measures in this dataset restrict where data centers may be built, this one changes what they pay to run.
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In effect Strength: stronger
Bartz v. Anthropic
N.D. Cal. · Effective September 5, 2025 · Bartz v. Anthropic PBC, No. 3:24-cv-05417 (N.D. Cal.)
Authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson sued Anthropic over its use of pirated-book datasets to train Claude. In June 2025 Judge William Alsup ruled that training on lawfully purchased books was fair use. The piracy claims (LibGen ingestion) proceeded toward settlement; in September 2025 Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion class settlement covering ~500,000 works. Judge Alsup granted preliminary approval September 25, 2025 and final approval July 20, 2026. The appeal period runs through August 19, 2026; class members will not receive payments until at least end of 2026.
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In effect Strength: stronger
COPPA + 2025 Rule (childrens data)
United States · Effective June 23, 2025 · 15 U.S.C. §§ 6501–6506; 16 C.F.R. Part 312
COPPA requires online services aimed at children under 13 to get verifiable parental consent before collecting kids' personal data. The 2025 rule update — fully in effect since April 22, 2026 — adds biometric identifiers (like face templates and voiceprints, which matter for AI tools), requires separate parental consent before sharing children's data for targeted advertising, and tightens data retention limits.
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In effect Strength: stronger
TAKE IT DOWN Act
United States · Effective May 19, 2025 · Pub. L. No. 119-12 (S. 146)
Makes it a federal crime to knowingly publish intimate images of someone without consent, including AI-generated deepfakes. Social media and similar platforms must give victims a way to request removal and must take the content (and known copies) down within 48 hours. The platform removal requirement became enforceable May 19, 2026, and the FTC has already begun enforcement.
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Blocked / in litigation
NetChoice v. Yost (Ohio)
S.D. Ohio · Effective April 16, 2025 · NetChoice, LLC v. Yost, No. 2:24-cv-00047 (S.D. Ohio Apr. 16, 2025)
Ohio's Social Media Parental Notification Act — requiring parental consent for minors' social-media use, including algorithmic feeds — was preliminarily enjoined on February 12, 2024, then permanently enjoined on April 16, 2025 when the district court granted summary judgment for NetChoice. The state appealed to the Sixth Circuit, which vacated the district court's injunction in 2026.
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In effect Strength: stronger
Thaler v. Perlmutter (Copyright)
D.C. Cir. · Effective March 18, 2025 · Thaler v. Perlmutter, 130 F.4th 1039 (D.C. Cir. 2025)
The companion copyright case: Stephen Thaler sought to register a copyright with 'Creativity Machine' (his AI) as the author. The D.C. Circuit affirmed in March 2025 that the Copyright Act's human-authorship requirement is dispositive as a matter of statutory law. AI cannot be a copyright author under U.S. law.
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In effect Strength: stronger
Louis v. SafeRent
D. Mass. · Effective November 20, 2024 · Louis v. SafeRent Solutions, LLC, No. 1:22-cv-10800 (D. Mass.)
SafeRent agreed in November 2024 to a $2.275M settlement and a five-year ban on using its 'SafeRent Score' for housing-voucher applicants, after a class action alleged its AI tenant-screening tool systematically denied housing to Black and Hispanic Section 8 voucher holders. The first major AI tenant-screening Fair Housing Act settlement.
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In effect Strength: stronger
FTC Impersonation Rule (AI)
United States · Effective April 1, 2024 · 16 C.F.R. Part 461; 89 Fed. Reg. 15017
The FTC's Impersonation Rule lets the agency directly sue scammers who pretend to be a government agency or a real business — including those who use AI-cloned voices or generated images to do so. Civil penalties can reach $53,088 per violation. The FTC also issued a supplemental notice in February 2024 proposing to extend the rule to all individual impersonation.
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In effect Strength: stronger
FTC v. Rite Aid
FTC · Effective February 26, 2024 · FTC v. Rite Aid Corp., No. 2:23-cv-05023 (E.D. Pa. Dec. 19, 2023)
The FTC banned Rite Aid from using facial-recognition technology in its stores for five years after finding the pharmacy chain's FRT system falsely tagged customers — disproportionately women and people of color — as shoplifters, leading to wrongful detentions and humiliations.
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In effect Strength: stronger
TCPA (AI voice calls)
United States · Effective February 8, 2024 · 47 U.S.C. § 227; FCC 24-17
Robocalls using AI-cloned or AI-generated voices are treated like other 'artificial voice' calls: callers need your prior express consent, must identify themselves, and must offer opt-outs for telemarketing. You can personally sue violators for $500 to $1,500 per illegal call.
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