In California, a Democrat and a Republican figured out how to pass the country’s toughest online privacy law protecting kids. Passed with unanimous bipartisan support, the measure presents a road map for federal lawmakers to stop social media companies from targeting kids. Gavin Newsom last year signed the law, which imposes strict guardrails on online services that children use. The measure forbids online services from designing features on their websites that are harmful to children. The association also claims all users will have to turn over far more personal data for online services to verify who is younger than 18.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 07, 2023 16:10 UTC