On Friday, February 9, as the country collectively packed up and prepared to head home for Super Bowl weekend, the Third Appellate District of the California Appellate Court issued an Order granting the California Privacy Protection Agency the ability to immediately enforce regulations implementing the California Privacy Rights Act, which were finalized in March 2023.

California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code is a first-of-its-kind children’s privacy law in the United States that is scheduled to go into effect in 2024. The CA AADC is applicable to online services, products, or features that are likely to be accessed by children.

California and New York recently passed laws that seek to change how social media platforms and social media networks design and report their content moderation practices. The New York law will require a hateful conduct policy and reporting mechanism starting in December 2022. California laws will impose content moderation and transparency requirements starting in 2023 and 2024.

The recently enacted My Health, My Data Act (MHMD) will regulate the collection, use, sharing, analysis, and sale of health-related data of individuals in Washington state and beyond.