Google → California AB1043, Digital Age Assurance Act
publicly endorsed
2025-09-09
Dated announcement quotes Google; endorsement does not establish authorship of every provision.
Enacted allocation of age-signaling responsibilities after negotiated legislative revision
California AB1043, Digital Age Assurance Act
California AB1043, the Digital Age Assurance Act, became Chapter 675 on 13 October 2025, with its age-signal framework operative in January 2027. It allocates age information across operating-system and application relationships, using four age bands and account-entered age in the chaptered version.
Background
Chapter675 enacted October13,2025; age-signal framework operative January2027
Chaptered framework differs from ICMEC model and whitepaper; per-website approval and earlier download-consent gates not established in inspected operative text
From proposal to chaptered text
The April 2025 analysis named ICMEC and Children Now as co-sponsors of a version with six bands and parental download consent. July analysis recorded Wicks's agreement to narrow application scope after stakeholder concerns. The enacted text uses four bands, includes data minimization and non-discrimination, and lacks the earlier parental-download consent and broad website scheme. Google and Meta publicly endorsed the bill in September; those statements do not identify the author of each surviving provision.
What the records show
Meta → California AB1043, Digital Age Assurance Act
publicly endorsed OS and app-store age-assurance allocation in
2025-09-09
Meta is quoted favoring this allocation; common support is not proof of common contracts.
International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (US) → California AB1043, Digital Age Assurance Act
was named as a sponsor of
2025-04-22
Official April22,2025 analysis identifies sponsor of the then-current proposal.
Children Now → California AB1043, Digital Age Assurance Act
was named as a sponsor of
2025-04-22
Official April22,2025 analysis identifies this co-sponsor.
Buffy Wicks → California AB1043, Digital Age Assurance Act
agrees scope narrowing
2025-07-15
Online service/product/feature removal followed stakeholder concerns; proposer names not established.
Further reading
Steam transcript intake: age credentials, policy sponsorship, and data custody ↗
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5 relationshipsInternational Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (US) → was named as a sponsor of → California AB1043, Digital Age Assurance Act
2025-04-22
Official April22,2025 analysis identifies sponsor of the then-current proposal.
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Children Now → was named as a sponsor of → California AB1043, Digital Age Assurance Act
2025-04-22
Official April22,2025 analysis identifies this co-sponsor.
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Google → publicly endorsed → California AB1043, Digital Age Assurance Act
2025-09-09
Dated announcement quotes Google; endorsement does not establish authorship of every provision.
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Meta → publicly endorsed OS and app-store age-assurance allocation in → California AB1043, Digital Age Assurance Act
2025-09-09
Meta is quoted favoring this allocation; common support is not proof of common contracts.
Read the original source 1
Buffy Wicks → agrees scope narrowing → California AB1043, Digital Age Assurance Act
2025-07-15
Reported by the cited source
Online service/product/feature removal followed stakeholder concerns; proposer names not established.