Privacy Rights for California Minors in the Digital World (online eraser and harmful-product marketing limits)
Minors Online Privacy (22580)
Children · Marketing
Lets registered minor users remove content they posted (the 'online eraser') and bars marketing of alcohol, firearms, tobacco, cannabis, and other listed age-restricted products to minors, including using minors' personal information for that marketing.
- Where
- California
- Citation
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code 22580-22582
- Status
- In force
- In force since
- 2015-01-01
- Last amended
- 2019-01-01
- Enforced by
- California Attorney General and local prosecutors (Unfair Competition Law)
- People can sue
- No
- Penalties
- No penalty specified in the chapter; enforced through general unfair competition remedies.
- Applies to
- Operators of websites, online services, and apps directed to minors or with actual knowledge that a minor (under 18) is using them
Rights it gives people
- Let registered minor users remove, or request removal of, content they posted, and tell them how.Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code 22581(a)
Practices it requires
- Do not market or advertise listed age-restricted products on services directed to minors, or target known minors with such ads based on their personal information.Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code 22580(a)-(b), (i)
- Do not use, disclose, or compile a known minor's personal information for marketing listed age-restricted products.Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code 22580(c)
Sources
- Official text
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code 22580 (California Legislative Information)
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code 22581
Checked against these sources on 2026-09-25 by research agent (Claude), primary sources.
Unverified: Effective date (Jan. 1, 2015) is from background knowledge (SB 568, Stats. 2013, Ch. 336); last amendment (AB 3067, Stats. 2018, Ch. 347) presumed effective Jan. 1, 2019.
Research reference, not legal advice.