EFF reviews California's 2026 digital rights wins and losses

EFF reviewed nearly 100 California bills across the two-year session that ended in 2026. Signed measures include SB 947 (limits automated decision-making used to fire or discipline workers), AB 1883 (bans workplace surveillance that predicts emotions or collects neural data), SB 747 (allows damages suits against federal officials for constitutional violations) and AB 1854 and AB 1930 (shield protections for reproductive and gender-affirming care records and subpoenas). The age-gating expansion from operating systems to browsers was removed from AB 1856, which also exempted open-source operating systems, though EFF still considers the underlying AB 1043 unconstitutional. No defender actions are stated.

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