Washington Revised Code Title 19. Business Regulations--Miscellaneous § 19.300.010. Definitions

(1) “Affiliate” means any company that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with another company. Affiliate may also include a supplier, distributor, business partner, or any entity that effects, administers, or enforces a government or business transaction.

(2) “Identification device” means an item that uses radio frequency identification technology or facial recognition technology.

(3) “Issued” means either:

(4) “Person” means a natural person who resides in Washington.

(5) “Personal information” has the same meaning as in RCW 19.255.010.

(6) “Radio frequency identification” means the use of electromagnetic radiating waves or reactive field coupling in the radio frequency portion of the spectrum to communicate to or from a tag through a variety of modulation and encoding schemes to uniquely read the identity of a radio frequency tag or other data stored on it.

(7) “Remotely reading” means that no physical contact is required between the identification device and the mechanical device that captures data.

(8) “Unique personal identifier number” means a randomly assigned string of numbers or symbols that is encoded on the identification device and is intended to identify the identification device.