California AB 1856
Would expand California’s device-based age assurance law to cover websites
All bills originating in the California state legislature
Would expand California’s device-based age assurance law to cover websites
Age verification mandate enforced by private lawsuits.
Last year’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Act included a provision to establish a Children’s Data Protection Working Group. This bill implements the working group.
This bill would require a commercial sexually explicit website to use an age verification method that prevents minors from accessing sexually explicit material. Nothing about the method is defined. Noncompliance would open websites to private lawsuits from the parent or legal guardian of a minor who accessed the sexually explicit material.