{
  "id": 10627,
  "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/california-steps-back-dangerous-expansion-its-age-gating-law",
  "title": "California Steps Back From Dangerous Expansion of its Age-Gating Law",
  "summary": "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",
  "authors": "Rindala Alajaji",
  "category": "org",
  "topics": "regulation,privacy-surveillance",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-07-15T20:50:48.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-16T05:10:56.605Z",
  "source_slug": "eff",
  "source_name": "EFF Deeplinks",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.eff.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/10627",
  "original_url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/california-steps-back-dangerous-expansion-its-age-gating-law",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}