The bill requires tech companies to follow principles aimed at keeping children safe. Companies will have to submit a “data protection impact assessment” to the attorney general before offering new services, products or features attractive to children.
Facebook parent company Meta said it has concerns about some of law's provisions but shares lawmakers' goal of keeping children safe online.
The bill is modeled after a similar measure in the United Kingdom. In the year since that law took effect, some of the U.S.'s most valuable technology companies “have begun to redesign their products in children's best interests,” said Democratic Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, a co-author of the law. Still, Jim Steyer, CEO of Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that advocates for children, said the bill Newsom signed on Thursday is “a necessary and positive steps forward in standing up to Big Tech.”
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