Data Privacy
Dec. 27, 2023
Bonta gets amici support for child privacy law
“The [California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act] does not regulate commercial speech: it regulates data capitalism,” wrote Juyoun Han, an attorney with Eisenberg & Baum LLP on behalf of several nonprofit organizations including the Center for Digital Democracy and the Children’s Advocacy Institute.
Teachers’ unions, other states, and children’s advocacy groups have filed amicus curiae briefs joining Attorney General Rob Bonta in appealing a decision by a federal judge in San Jose to enjoin a state law regulating the storage of children’s online data.
The briefs, filed last week with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, defended the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, or CAADCA, arguing that the law does not single out busine...