Calif. Senate Appropriators Review Kids Safety, Workplace Surveillance Bills
The California Senate Appropriations Committee agreed Monday to add bills on workplace surveillance (AB-1331) and age-verification signals (AB-1043) to the “suspense file,” a category for bills deemed to be costly, setting them up for a vote at later meetings. In addition, it moved various other privacy and AI bills to suspense earlier in the hearing (see 2508180051).
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Watched by privacy experts (see 2508150016), AB-1043 by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D) is a kids online safety measure that would require manufacturers to develop a way to have device owners enter the user’s birth date or age, so that a digital signal about the user’s age bracket could be sent to app developers through an application programming interface.
AB-1331 by Assemblymember Sade Elhawary (D) would limit a range of employer methods to track workers -- including through facial recognition, wearable devices and algorithmic surveillance -- when employees are in private locations or off duty (see 2506250050).
California legislators returned from summer recess Monday with many privacy and AI bills nearing the finish line (see 2508150016 and 2508150039)). The Assembly Appropriations Committee is scheduled to meet Wednesday.