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HRS §431:3B-205

Choosing and overseeing outside service providers

A licensee must carefully pick any outside company that handles its data. When needed, the licensee must make that company protect the data with proper security measures. This rule does not apply to encrypted data the company cannot read.

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The statute, as written — Oversight of third-party service provider arrangements

A licensee shall: (1) Exercise due diligence in selecting its third-party service provider; and (2) Where appropriate, require a third-party service provider to implement appropriate administrative, technical, and physical measures to protect and secure the information systems and nonpublic information that are accessible to or held by the third-party service provider; provided that encrypted nonpublic information is not accessible to or held by the third-party service provider within the meaning of this paragraph if the third-party service provider does not possess the associated protective process or key necessary to assign meaning to the nonpublic information.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

LawTrove is not legal advice. The summary above is a computer-generated restatement — the authoritative text is the official version linked above.