NH Rev Stat § 359-H:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXI - Trade and Commerce|Title 359-H - Computer Spyware|Section 359-H:2 - Prohibited Conduct.

    359-H:2 Prohibited Conduct. –||A person or entity conducting business in this state, who is not an authorized user, shall not knowingly cause a computer program or spyware to be copied onto the computer of a consumer and use the program or spyware to do any of the following:||I. Take control, through intentionally deceptive means, of the consumer's computer by doing any of the following:||(a) Transmitting or relaying commercial electronic mail or a computer virus from the consumer's computer, where the transmission or relaying is initiated by a person other than an authorized user and without the authorization of an authorized user.||(b) Accessing or using the consumer's modem or Internet service for the purpose of causing damage to the consumer's computer or causing an authorized user to incur unauthorized financial charges.||(c) Using the consumer's computer as part of an activity performed by a group of computers for the purpose of causing damage to another computer, including launching a denial of service attack.||(d) Opening multiple, sequential, stand-alone advertisements in the consumer's Internet browser with knowledge that a reasonable computer user cannot close the advertisements without turning off the computer or closing the consumer's Internet browser.||II. Modifying, through intentionally deceptive means, any of the following settings related to the computer's access to, or use of, the Internet:||(a) The page that appears when an authorized user launches an Internet browser or similar program used to access and navigate the Internet.||(b) The default provider the authorized user uses to access or search the Internet.||(c) The authorized user's list of bookmarks used to access Web pages.||(d) An authorized user's security or other settings that protect information about the authorized user, for the purpose of stealing personal information of, or causing harm to, an authorized user.||(e) The security settings of the computer for the purpose of causing damage to one or more computers.||III. Collecting personal information through intentionally deceptive means, such as through the use of a keystroke logging function, and transferring that information from the computer to another person.||IV. Preventing, through intentionally deceptive means, an authorized user's reasonable efforts to block the installation of, or to disable, software by doing any of the following:||(a) Presenting an authorized user with an option to decline installation of software such that, when the option is selected, the installation nevertheless proceeds.||(b) Falsely representing that software has been disabled.||(c) Causing software that the authorized user has properly removed or disabled to automatically reinstall or reactivate on the computer without the authorization of an authorized user.||V. Intentionally misrepresenting that software will be uninstalled or disabled by an authorized user's action, with knowledge that the software will not be uninstalled or disabled.||VI. Inducing, through deceptive means, an authorized user to install a software component onto the computer, including deceptively misrepresenting that installing software is necessary for security or privacy reasons or in order to open, view, or play a particular type of content.||VII. Deceptively installing and executing on the computer one or more additional computer software components with the intent of causing an authorized user to use the components in a way that violates any other provision of this section.||VIII. Through intentionally deceptive means, removing, disabling, or rendering inoperative a security, antispyware, or antivirus technology installed on the computer.|||Source. 2005, 238:1, eff. July 14, 2005.|