What California SB 976 (2024) - Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act requires
California SB 976 (chaptered September 20 2024) adds Chapter 24 (Sections 27000-27007) to Division 20 of the California Health and Safety Code creating the Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act. The Act regulates operators of addictive internet-based services or applications used by minors. An addictive feed is defined as a service feature where multiple pieces of media generated or shared by users are recommended selected or prioritized for display to a user based in whole or in part on information provided by the user or the user's device. Operators must implement default settings for minor accounts including restriction of access between midnight and 6 a.m. limitation of daily usage to one hour hiding of engagement metrics like likes private-by-default accounts and availability of chronological-only feeds. Verifiable parental consent or reasonable age verification is required by January 1 2027 before serving addictive feeds to minors. The Attorney General is the sole enforcement authority via civil action; there is no private right of action. Parts take effect immediately upon enactment with the age-verification mandate phased to January 1 2027.
Pillar: Data Protection & Privacy · Authority: California Office of the Attorney General (sole enforcement) · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB976
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- California Health and Safety Code Section 27000 - Addictive feed means a service feature where multiple pieces of media generated or shared by users are recommended selected or prioritized for display to a user based in whole or in part on information provided by the user or the user's device and addictive internet-based service or application means an internet-based service or application that provides users with an addictive feed
- California Health and Safety Code Section 27001 - An operator of an addictive internet-based service or application shall not provide an addictive feed to a user that the operator knows or reasonably should know is a minor unless the operator has obtained verifiable parental consent or reasonable age verification per Section 27007 effective January 1 2027
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