How the Oct 20, 2026 review of California Enacts Social Media Feed and Chatbot Restrictions for Minors went
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Before “AB 1856, by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, amends the state's Digital Age Assurance Act so that operating systems collect a user's birth date or age at device setup and send apps a signal placing the user in one of four age brackets: under 13, 13 to 15, 16 to 17, or 18 and over.”
After “AB 1856, by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, amends the state's Digital Age Assurance Act, enacted in 2025 as AB 1043, which requires operating systems to collect a user's birth date or age at device setup and send apps a signal placing the user in one of four age brackets: under 13, 13 to 15, 16 to 17, or 18 and over. AB 1856 removes the original definition limiting a "user" to a child who is a device's primary user, so that the signals cover users of all ages, and exempts open-source operating systems.”
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This event (and its frontmatter description, 'AB 1856, which requires operating systems to send apps an age-bracket signal,' plus the lawsrulings entry note 'Amended by AB 1856 to require operating-system age-bracket signals') attributes the age-at-setup collection and four-bracket signal requirement to AB 1856. But California Digital Age Assurance Act states that requirement was created by the original Act (AB 1043), signed by Newsom on 2025-10-13 — a full year before this event — and that AB 1856 only 'removed the original definition that limited a "user" to a child who is a device's primary user, so that signals cover users of all ages, and exempted open-source operating systems.' Gavin Newsom corroborates this: it separately credits the 2025 AB 1043 signing with establishing the age-signal system and describes the 2026 AB 1856 only as having 'amended the Digital Age Assurance Act.' The event should describe AB 1856 as extending the existing age-signal requirement to all users (not just minors) and adding an open-source exemption, not as the origin of the collect-age/send-signal mechanism.
What was done
Confirmed against the entry's cited Kelley Drye source (https://www.kelleydrye.com/viewpoints/blogs/ad-law-access/californias-2026-legislative-session-wraps-...), which says 'AB 1043 established an age-bracketing signal framework under which operating system providers must collect a user's birth date or age at account setup', and that AB 1856 'removes AB 1043's definition of "user," which was limited to "a child that is the primary user of a device"' to 'enable accurate age-bracket signals for users of all ages' and 'exempts open-source operating systems'. Rewrote the body sentence to attribute the mechanism to AB 1043 (2025) and describe AB 1856's actual changes; also corrected the frontmatter description ('AB 1856, which extends the state's operating-system age-bracket signals to users of all ages'), the lawsrulings reference description ('Amended by AB 1856 to extend operating-system age-bracket signals to all users'), and the Kelley Drye source notes, which repeated the misattribution.