Existing
law generally provides protections for minors on the internet,
including the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act that, among
other things, requires a business that provides an online service,
product, or feature likely to be accessed by children to do certain
things, including estimate the age of child users with a reasonable
level of certainty appropriate to the risks that arise from the data
management practices of the business or apply the privacy and data
protections afforded to children to all consumers and prohibits an
online service, product, or feature from, among other things, using
dark patterns to lead or encourage children to provide personal
information beyond what is reasonably expected to provide that online
service, product, or feature or to forego privacy protections.
This
bill, beginning January 1, 2027, would require, among other things
related to age verification with respect to software applications, an
operating system provider, as defined, to provide an accessible
interface at account setup that requires an account holder, as defined,
to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device
for the purpose of providing a signal regarding the user’s age bracket
to applications available in a covered application store and to provide
a developer, as defined, who has requested a signal with respect to a
particular user with a digital signal via a reasonably consistent
real-time application programming interface regarding whether a user is
in any of several age brackets, as prescribed. The bill would require a
developer to request a signal with respect to a particular user from an
operating system provider or a covered application store when the
application is downloaded and launched.
This bill would prohibit an operating system provider or a covered application store from using data collected from a third party in an anticompetitive manner, as specified.
This bill would punish noncompliance with a civil penalty to be enforced by the Attorney General, as prescribed.
This bill would declare its provisions to be severable.
Riechel
Reports - City
of San Bruno CA Events and of Interest to San Bruno Residents