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Judge blocks Calif. landmark youth privacy law from taking effect

A U.S. district judge wrote that it likely violates the First Amendment.
A Google building on its campus in Mountain View, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

A federal judge in California has sided with the tech industry and granted a motion to temporarily block a first-in-the-nation children’s digital privacy law from taking effect next July. 

In an order issued Monday, U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman wrote that, despite passing the California legislature unanimously last year, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act likely violates the First Amendment.

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