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First-of-its-kind legislation will keep California’s children safer while online [theguardian.com]

 

By Kari Paul, Photo: Donald Iain Smith/Getty Images/Tetra images RF, The Guardian, August 30, 2022

California lawmakers passed first-of-its-kind legislation on Monday designed to improve the online safety and privacy protections for children.

The bill, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, will require firms such as TikTok, Instagram and YouTube to install guardrails for users under the age of 18, including defaulting to higher privacy settings for minors and refraining from collecting location data for those users.

It also requires companies to analyze their algorithms and products to determine how they may affect young users, assessing whether they are designed to be addictive or could cause additional harm to children.

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