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California Steps Back From Dangerous Expansion of its Age-Gating Law

The California legislature has stepped back from a plan that would have expanded its age-gating law, removing language that could have compounded serious threats to users’ speech, privacy and security just to browse the internet. A.B. 1856 , authored by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, will now move forward through the legislature without its most problematic pieces. EFF still believes the underlying law that A.B. 1856 amends, A.B. 1043 , is unconstitutional. Signed into law in 2025 (and effective Ja

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Published: 15 July 2026
Source: EFF Deeplinks
Category: Field notes
Topics: Regulation · Privacy
Retrieved: 16 July 2026

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ethics.ai (15 July 2026), “California Steps Back From Dangerous Expansion of its Age-Gating Law,” evidence record 10627, https://ethics.ai/record/10627 (originally published by EFF Deeplinks).

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