California Age-Appropriate Design Code Is Not Child’s Play: 5 Practical Tips to Comply and Protect Kids’ Privacy

California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed Assembly Bill 2273—the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (ADCA)—into law. Inspired by the United Kingdom's (UK) Age-Appropriate Design Code, the ADCA will impose data privacy requirements on businesses that provide "an online service, product or feature likely to be accessed by a child." In this article, Troutman Pepper attorneys Tambry Lynette Bradford, James Koenig, Ronald I. Raether Jr., and Robyn W. Lin discuss requirements and prohibitions imposed on businesses by the ADCA, how it compares to COPPA, UK, and GDPR requirements, and five steps that companies can take to meet the law's obligations.

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