Online services, products, or features likely to be accessed by children (AB 2246, 2026 replacement of the Age-Appropriate Design Code)

Signed September 10, 2026, AB 2246 repeals the 2022 Age-Appropriate Design Code and re-enacts a narrower version: age estimation (tied to the Digital Age Assurance Act signals) or child protections for all users, high-privacy defaults, limits on profiling, data collection, and precise geolocation, and a new duty to take reasonable steps to prevent listed harms to children. It drops the data protection impact assessment and 'best interests' tests that courts had enjoined, and it lets a child void contract terms obtained through a design feature.