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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Identity, citation and title of California's age-verification statute",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] California's statute on age verification is the Digital Age Assurance Act, Civil Code Title 1.81.9, Sections 1798.500 to 1798.505, enacted by AB 1043 (Stats. 2025, Ch. 675), whose short title is 'Age verification signals: software applications and online services', and amended by AB 1856 (Stats. 2026, Ch. 184).",
      "body": "California's statute on age verification is the Digital Age Assurance Act, Civil Code Title 1.81.9, Sections 1798.500 to 1798.505, enacted by AB 1043 (Stats. 2025, Ch. 675), whose short title is 'Age verification signals: software applications and online services', and amended by AB 1856 (Stats. 2026, Ch. 184).\n\nWhat California Legislative Information (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov) actually says:\n\n“TITLE 1.81.9. Digital Age Assurance Act [1798.500 - 1798.505]”\n\nNote: ANCHOR RECORD. Section heading quoted verbatim from the Civil Code display page, which also carries the annotation '(Title 1.81.9 added by Stats. 2025, Ch. 675, Sec. 1.)'. On the check date the codes page still displayed the Stats. 2025 text, so all operative-language quotes in this batch come from the AB 1856 chaptered bill text page (approved by the Governor 09/10/2026, two days before this check). AB 3080, the 2023-24 bill that would have added pornographic-website age verification, is recorded separately as dead.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=CIV&division=3.&title=1.81.9.&part=4.&chapter=&article=",
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      "subject": "California Digital Age Assurance Act",
      "topic": "Identity, citation and title of California's age-verification statute",
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      "id": "learn_r172_california_age_verification_as_it_lands_on_a_creator_172_ca_daaa_enacted",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Whether California has an age-verification statute in force at all, and its citation",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] California has an age-verification statute in force: the Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043) was approved by the Governor on October 13, 2025 and chaptered by the Secretary of State as Chapter 675, Statutes of 2025, adding Title 1.81.9 (commencing with Section 1798.500) to the Civil Code.",
      "body": "California has an age-verification statute in force: the Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043) was approved by the Governor on October 13, 2025 and chaptered by the Secretary of State as Chapter 675, Statutes of 2025, adding Title 1.81.9 (commencing with Section 1798.500) to the Civil Code.\n\nWhat California Legislative Information (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov) actually says:\n\n“10/13/25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 675, Statutes of 2025.\n10/13/25 Approved by the Governor.”\n\nNote: Two adjacent rows of the 'Last 5 History Actions' table on the official bill status page are quoted together as one contiguous span. The chaptered bill text page carries the heading 'An act to add Title 1.81.9 (commencing with Section 1798.500) to Part 4 of Division 3 of the Civil Code, relating to consumer protection.'",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-12",
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      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "California Legislative Information (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov)",
      "evidence_quote": "10/13/25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 675, Statutes of 2025.\n10/13/25 Approved by the Governor.",
      "volatility": "low",
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      "id": "learn_r172_california_age_verification_as_it_lands_on_a_creator_172_ca_daaa_operative",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] California Digital Age Assurance Act: Effective date and operative date of the statute",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] The Digital Age Assurance Act became effective on January 1, 2026 and becomes operative (enforceable) on January 1, 2027, per Civil Code Section 1798.505.",
      "body": "The Digital Age Assurance Act became effective on January 1, 2026 and becomes operative (enforceable) on January 1, 2027, per Civil Code Section 1798.505.\n\nWhat California Legislative Information (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov) actually says:\n\n“(Added by Stats. 2025, Ch. 675, Sec. 1. (AB 1043) Effective January 1, 2026. Operative January 1, 2027, pursuant to Section 1798.505.)”\n\nNote: This annotation appears under Section 1798.500 on the official codes page; Section 1798.505 itself reads exactly 'This title shall become operative on January 1, 2027.' AB 1856 (Ch. 184, Stats. 2026) amended Sections 1798.500-1798.504 but did not change the operative date.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=CIV&division=3.&title=1.81.9.&part=4.&chapter=&article=",
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      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "California Legislative Information (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov)",
      "evidence_quote": "(Added by Stats. 2025, Ch. 675, Sec. 1. (AB 1043) Effective January 1, 2026. Operative January 1, 2027, pursuant to Section 1798.505.)",
      "volatility": "low",
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      "subject": "California Digital Age Assurance Act",
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      "id": "learn_r172_california_age_verification_as_it_lands_on_a_creator_172_ca_pornav_ab3080_died",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Whether a pornographic-website age-verification statute exists in California",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] California has no statute requiring age verification specifically on pornographic internet websites: AB 3080 (2023-24), 'The Parent’s Accountability and Child Protection Act', which would have amended Civil Code Section 1798.99.1 to make pornographic websites age-verification products, died in the Senate on November 30, 2024 and never became law.",
      "body": "California has no statute requiring age verification specifically on pornographic internet websites: AB 3080 (2023-24), 'The Parent’s Accountability and Child Protection Act', which would have amended Civil Code Section 1798.99.1 to make pornographic websites age-verification products, died in the Senate on November 30, 2024 and never became law.\n\nWhat California Legislative Information (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov) actually says:\n\n“11/30/24 From Senate committee without further action.”\n\nNote: The official bill status page labels the measure 'Inactive Bill - Died'. The proposed one-third-content threshold therefore never became law, so no binding California duty keys off a proportion of material. This record does not prove that no other age-verification provision exists anywhere in the Civil or Business and Professions Codes; the broader absence question is recorded in could_not_verify.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3080",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-12",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "California Legislative Information (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov)",
      "evidence_quote": "11/30/24 From Senate committee without further action.",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "172-california-age-verification-as-it-lands-on-a-creator",
      "subject": "California age verification of pornographic internet websites",
      "topic": "Whether a pornographic-website age-verification statute exists in California",
      "applies_to_country": "us",
      "applies_to_scope": "California; the died bill, per its committee analyses, defined a pornographic website by a one-third sexually-explicit-c",
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    {
      "id": "learn_r172_california_age_verification_as_it_lands_on_a_creator_172_ca_daaa_whoisbound",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] California Digital Age Assurance Act: Exactly whom the statute binds, and whether an individual creator selling content through another platform falls inside it",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] The Digital Age Assurance Act binds only three defined classes - an 'operating system provider', a 'covered application store', and a 'developer' (a person that owns an application, or maintains or controls the hosting of the application, in a covered application store) - and its text imposes no duty on a user, an uploader, or a content creator, so an individual creator selling their own content through somebody else's platform falls outside the statute unless that individual independently owns, maintains, or controls an application of their own in a covered application store.",
      "body": "The Digital Age Assurance Act binds only three defined classes - an 'operating system provider', a 'covered application store', and a 'developer' (a person that owns an application, or maintains or controls the hosting of the application, in a covered application store) - and its text imposes no duty on a user, an uploader, or a content creator, so an individual creator selling their own content through somebody else's platform falls outside the statute unless that individual independently owns, maintains, or controls an application of their own in a covered application store.\n\nWhat California Legislative Information (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov) actually says:\n\n“(f) “Developer” means a person that owns an application, or maintains or controls the hosting of the application, in a covered application store.”\n\nNote: THE BATCH QUESTION. The verdict that an individual creator is not a regulated entity is an inference drawn from the title's exhaustive enumerated definitions - the statute nowhere names or addresses a creator, uploader or content provider, and every duty in Section 1798.501 runs to 'an operating system provider', 'a covered application store' or 'a developer'. Confidence is medium because that negative implication is not stated in the text itself. Operative definition quoted as amended by AB 1856; the unamended AB 1043 defined 'Developer' as 'a person that owns, maintains, or controls an application'. The remaining regulated-class definitions, quoted in the same amended section 1798.500: (e)(1) 'Covered application store' means a publicly available internet website, software application, online service, or platform that distributes and facilitates the download of applications from third-party developers; (g)(1) 'Operating system provider' means a person or entity that develops, licenses, or controls the operating system software.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1856&version=20250AB185691CHP",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-12",
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      "evidence_quote": "(f) “Developer” means a person that owns an application, or maintains or controls the hosting of the application, in a covered application store.",
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      "id": "learn_r172_california_age_verification_as_it_lands_on_a_creator_172_ca_daaa_threshold",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] California Digital Age Assurance Act: The threshold that triggers the duty",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] The Digital Age Assurance Act states no threshold expressed as a proportion of material or as a volume of content; the developer's duty is triggered purely by the technical event of the application being downloaded onto and launched from a particular device.",
      "body": "The Digital Age Assurance Act states no threshold expressed as a proportion of material or as a volume of content; the developer's duty is triggered purely by the technical event of the application being downloaded onto and launched from a particular device.\n\nWhat California Legislative Information (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov) actually says:\n\n“(d) (1) (A) A developer shall request a signal with respect to a particular user from an operating system provider or a covered application store when the application is downloaded onto, and launched from, a particular device.”\n\nNote: The absence of any proportion-or-volume threshold is an inference from reading all five sections (1798.500-1798.504) in both the AB 1043 and AB 1856 chaptered texts, hence medium confidence. The obligation is activity-triggered (app download + launch), not content-proportion-triggered.",
      "source_type": "official",
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      "evidence_quote": "(d) (1) (A) A developer shall request a signal with respect to a particular user from an operating system provider or a covered application store when the application is downloaded onto, and launched from, a particular device.",
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      "applies_to_scope": "California statute; the one-third-of-content threshold that AB 3080 proposed for pornographic websites died with that bi",
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      "id": "learn_r172_california_age_verification_as_it_lands_on_a_creator_172_ca_daaa_method",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] California Digital Age Assurance Act: What verification method the statute accepts",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] The accepted mechanism is a self-declared age at device setup, not a government-ID or biometric check: at account setup an 'account holder' (an adult, or a parent or legal guardian of the minor user) must indicate the primary user's birth date or age, and the operating system transmits only a non-personally-identifiable age-bracket signal (under 13, 13-15, 16-17, 18+) to the covered application store or developer.",
      "body": "The accepted mechanism is a self-declared age at device setup, not a government-ID or biometric check: at account setup an 'account holder' (an adult, or a parent or legal guardian of the minor user) must indicate the primary user's birth date or age, and the operating system transmits only a non-personally-identifiable age-bracket signal (under 13, 13-15, 16-17, 18+) to the covered application store or developer.\n\nWhat California Legislative Information (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov) actually says:\n\n“(1) Provide an accessible interface, at account setup, that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the primary user of that device for the purpose of providing a signal regarding the primary user’s age bracket to all of the following:”\n\nNote: Verification here is a declared age converted to an age range; the identity of the person currently using the device is not independently verified. Practitioner commentary (AVPA, tier C - not recorded as a fact) describes this as a parental-control/self-declaration framework rather than age assurance. The four brackets are spelled out in the 'age bracket data' definition quoted in the data-handling record.",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] California Digital Age Assurance Act: What the statute says about retaining or deleting verification data",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] The statute imposes no retention period and no deletion requirement for verification data; its only data rules are minimization rules - the 'age bracket data' must be nonpersonally identifiable, the operating system sends only the minimum information necessary to comply, and the signal may not be shared with third parties for purposes not required by the title.",
      "body": "The statute imposes no retention period and no deletion requirement for verification data; its only data rules are minimization rules - the 'age bracket data' must be nonpersonally identifiable, the operating system sends only the minimum information necessary to comply, and the signal may not be shared with third parties for purposes not required by the title.\n\nWhat California Legislative Information (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov) actually says:\n\n“(b) “Age bracket data” means nonpersonally identifiable data derived from a user’s birth date or age for the purpose of sharing with developers of applications that indicates the user’s age range, including, at a minimum, the following:\n(1) Whether a user is under 13 years of age.\n(2) Whether the user is at least 13 years of age and under 16 years of age.\n(3) Whether the user is at least 16 years of age and under 18 years of age.\n(4) Whether the user is at least 18 years of age.”\n\nNote: The minimization provisions, quoted in the same chaptered text, are 1798.501(a)(3) 'Send only the minimum amount of information necessary to comply with this title.', 1798.501(b) 'An operating system provider shall not share the digital signal information with a third party for a purpose not required by this title.', and 1798.504(b) 'This title does not require the collection of additional personal information from device owners or device users other than that which is necessary to comply with Section 1798.501.' No retention schedule or deletion duty appears anywhere in the five sections, so their absence is recorded as an inference (hence medium confidence).",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] California Digital Age Assurance Act: Enforcement mechanism and penalty",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Enforcement is state action only: a violation is subject to an injunction and a civil penalty of not more than $2,500 per affected child for each negligent violation and not more than $7,500 per affected child for each intentional violation, assessed and recovered only in a civil action brought in the name of the people of the State of California by the Attorney General, and the statute creates no private right of action.",
      "body": "Enforcement is state action only: a violation is subject to an injunction and a civil penalty of not more than $2,500 per affected child for each negligent violation and not more than $7,500 per affected child for each intentional violation, assessed and recovered only in a civil action brought in the name of the people of the State of California by the Attorney General, and the statute creates no private right of action.\n\nWhat California Legislative Information (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov) actually says:\n\n“(a) A person that violates this title shall be subject to an injunction and liable for a civil penalty of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per affected child for each negligent violation or not more than seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) per affected child for each intentional violation, which shall be assessed and recovered only in a civil action brought in the name of the people of the State of California by the Attorney General.”\n\nNote: The exclusive 'only in a civil action brought in the name of the people ... by the Attorney General' phrasing supports the reading that there is no private right of action. Good-faith safe harbors for erroneous signals are at 1798.503(b)-(c) as amended. This provision was unchanged in substance by AB 1856.",
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