The California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, which was signed into law in September, requires companies to assess potential harm in how they use data from children (defined as any user under 18) in new services or features, and to enact plans to reduce risk. Companies are also banned from using minors’ information in “materially detrimental” ways, such as routing searches for weight loss to photos of supermodels, and from collecting, sharing, or selling a minor’s personal information by default. For more information about this new law, read “California takes child protection seriously with new online law” on AngelusNews.com.