Age verification signals: software applications.
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Overview
This bill updates California’s Digital Age Assurance Act (DAAA) to strengthen how software applications and online services verify a user’s age. It removes a previous definition of ‘user’ and clarifies that operating systems must provide an interface for users to indicate their age. The bill also requires signals regarding a user’s age bracket to be sent to covered application stores, developers, browser providers, or internet website operators. Furthermore, it shifts the responsibility for knowing a user’s age to developers and internet website operators if they receive a signal, with exceptions for internal, verified information.
Key provisions
- Removes the previous definition of ‘user’ and ‘user’ in the DAAA.
- Requires operating system providers to offer an age verification interface at account setup.
- Mandates that age signals be sent to covered application stores, developers, browser providers, and internet website operators.
- Shifts the responsibility for knowing a user’s age to developers and internet website operators who receive age signals.
- Prohibits requesting age signals without a legal requirement.
- Specifies that developers and internet website operators must use age signals as the primary indicator of a user’s age, unless they have verified alternative information.
- Includes a grace period for pre-January 1, 2027, devices to comply with age verification requirements.
- Addresses non-discrimination in compliance with the law.
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