SACRAMENTO -- Facebook and other social networking sites would have to abide by new protections for minors under a measure approved Friday by the Senate and sent to the governor.
The bill prohibits marketing certain products, including guns, bullets, dietary supplements and alcohol to minors, and bars the compiling of personal information provided by underage Internet users for marketing by third parties.
Senate leader Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) said his measure also would protect “the teenager who says something on the Internet that they regret five minutes later.”
“Under this bill, websites in California will have to have the ability for the young teenager to remove that [posting] before it is distributed to a third person,” Steinberg told his colleagues, who voted unanimously to approve SB 568.
