The Republican author of a California law providing online protections for teenagers said there are strong prospects for an appeal to undo a decision by a federal judge to pause implementation of the measure.
Former State Rep. Jordan Cunningham was one of the legislators who wrote the California Age Appropriate Design Code, a law that would restrict apps' ability to collect data on anyone 18 or younger and require them to implement their highest privacy standards for children and teenagers. It also would require platforms to add technology to verify users' age before allowing access.Gov.
"We spent hundreds of hours of work on this bill shaping it, getting it through the legislature," he said."I mean, it passed the state assembly for 74 to zero." The former legislator cited, as evidence, the 2021 Ninth Circuit decision in Lemmon v. Snap. Snapchat had added a feature allowing users to record their speed via the app and send it to their friends. Three young men who were using the feature died in a fiery car crash in 2017. Parent company Snap alleged that it was protected from liability by Section 230, a part of communications law that protects online platforms from being held culpable for content posted by third parties.
Cunningham became interested in privacy protections and social media in 2018 but found himself inspired to act after Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen appeared before Congress and testified about how much Meta knew about Instagram's influence over teenagers.
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