California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (AB 2273, 2022)

Required online services likely to be used by children to assess risks to children, default to high privacy, estimate users' ages, and avoid harmful data uses, profiling, precise geolocation collection, and dark patterns. It has never been fully enforceable: NetChoice v. Bonta produced preliminary injunctions in 2023 and 2025, and on March 12, 2026 the Ninth Circuit (No. 25-2366) narrowed the injunction, leaving the impact-assessment duties, the data-use restrictions, and the dark-patterns ban enjoined while vacating the injunction as to coverage and age estimation and remanding. AB 2246 (2026) repeals and replaces this title effective January 1, 2027.