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Bill to establish device-based age signals to help protect children considered by committee
Summary
AB 1043 would require manufacturers to provide a privacy-protective age-range signal from devices to app developers on request to establish a knowledge standard enabling age-targeted protections for children; supporters said amendments narrowed scope while industry raised practical concerns.
Assemblymember Wicks presented AB 1043 (referred to in the transcript as AB 10 43) to create a statutory age-assurance framework so device manufacturers or operating systems can provide a privacy-protective age range signal to app developers upon request. The stated goal is to enable platforms and regulators to apply child-safety rules where the platform has knowledge of a user's age.
Supporters, including Children Now and other…
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