Keep California Kids Privacy Code Barred, Tech Group Urges Court

Big tech trade group NetChoice is asking the Ninth Circuit to uphold the block on a California privacy law that would dictate how online platforms address potential harms to minors.

The blocked law, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, would censor speech and require platforms to collect more data on users, “countering the State’s claimed goal of protecting privacy,” NetChoice argued in a Wednesday evening filing to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

The appeals court should affirm the district court’s injunction under the First Amendment. The law is preempted by federal children’s privacy law as well ...