A federal appeals court has upheld data privacy-related provisions of California’s online child safety law while striking down those that required tech companies to assess and mitigate risks of harmful content to children, finding that these provisions likely violate the First Amendment.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling on Aug. 16 that upholds those parts of California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (AB 2273) that restrict the collection, use, and sale of children’s personal data, as well as those that prohibit the tracking of children’s geolocation, seeing them as a necessary protection for children’s privacy online.
