EdLaw
California — CCPA/CPRA as it reaches minors (§1798.120)
The CCPA's opt-out right for sale/sharing of personal information, with the minors' inversion: a business with actual knowledge a consumer is under 16 must not sell or share their personal information without affirmative authorisation — the consumer's own at 13–15, the parent's under 13 — and wilful disregard of age counts as actual knowledge (§1798.120(c)).
Applicability to EdTech
- SOPIPA-covered student data is already unsellable; §1798.120 matters for consumer-facing surfaces (home use, parent accounts) and any data flows characterised as "sharing" for cross-context behavioural advertising.
- CCPA applies to for-profit businesses meeting thresholds; check applicability before mapping duties. Nonprofits and the school itself are outside CCPA.
Contents
| Document | Covers |
|---|---|
| OPT-IN-UNDER-16.md | Civ. Code §1798.120 in full |
Licence
The corpus reproduces Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.120 verbatim from California Legislative Information, the Legislature's own site.
Statute text enacted by a state legislature is outside copyright under the government edicts doctrine. In Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc., 590 U.S. 255 (2020) (slip opinion, read 2026-10-01), the Supreme Court held: "Under what has been dubbed the government edicts doctrine, officials empowered to speak with the force of law cannot be the authors of—and therefore cannot copyright—the works they create in the course of their official duties." It applied the doctrine to an arm of the legislature as well as to legislators: "Because Georgia’s annotations are authored by an arm of the legislature in the course of its legislative duties, the government edicts doctrine puts them outside the reach of copyright protection."
The section pages on California Legislative Information (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov, read 2026-10-01) carry no copyright notice and no terms of use.
Conditions: none attach to the statute text. The corpus nonetheless names the official source in its Sources section and in each fact document's {.meta} provenance lines, and its Meta section describes what it changed (anchors added, nothing reworded).
Related
- SOPIPA — the school-purposes regime
- CAADCA — the design-code layer (litigation-frozen)
- US COPPA — federal under-13 regime