A business with must obtain before selling or sharing personal information of a consumer under 16: parental authorization for under 13 and the consumer's authorization for ages 13 to 15.
For product, privacy, advertising, engineering, and support teams implementing authorization, later opt-outs, and downstream blocks.
A business with that a consumer is under 16 cannot sell or share that consumer's personal information unless it first receives . A parent or guardian must authorize for a child under 13; a consumer aged 13 through 15 may authorize personally. This rule is an opt-in for sale and sharing, not a general permission to collect or use children's data.
The CCPA does not require every general-audience business to ask every visitor's age. The trigger is , including willful disregard, and the facts of the product, audience, account data, and collection flow matter.
Compliance with the CCPA minors rule does not establish compliance with the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act or other child-safety and privacy laws. uses different scope and consent tests, and section 7070 states that CCPA consent for sale or sharing is additional to any verifiable parental consent required under COPPA. Separately, personal information of consumers the business actually knows are under 16 is sensitive personal information under the regulations, which can trigger risk-assessment and other controls even when no sale or sharing occurs.
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Official CPPA text for minors opt-in duties and privacy-policy disclosures; the internal owner and evidence assignments are operational recommendations.
consumers under 16 years of age
Connect age knowledge, the correct authorization process, opt-out handling, and downstream sale-and-sharing blocks.
Turn Minors into scoped questions, evidence fields, and review tasks.
Use Research Copilot to answer follow-up questions with cited source material.
Review scope, evidence, owners, and the next compliance actions with Sorena.
"consumers under 16 years of age"
Route CCPA requests by right, apply the correct verification and response rule, coordinate downstream action, and retain a clear decision record.
Classify CCPA recipients from their actual processing and contracts, then document the clauses, restrictions, monitoring, and opt-out consequences.
Track CCPA request clocks, annual duties, DROP dates, and phased 2026-2030 deadlines for risk assessments, ADMT, and cybersecurity audits.
Classify CCPA sales and sharing, provide valid opt-out methods, honor preference signals, stop disclosures within 15 business days, and notify recipients.
Implement CCPA sale-or-sharing opt-outs across links, GPC, consent state, ad tech, recipients, confirmation, privacy disclosures, and evidence.
Run CCPA data-subject requests from intake through verification, search, exception review, downstream action, response, and retained evidence.
Process CCPA opt-out preference signals across browsers, devices, profiles, accounts, offline data, conflicts, recipients, and confirmation controls.
See current CCPA fines, civil penalties, security-breach damages, adjustment rules, and the facts needed before estimating exposure.
Draft and maintain a CCPA privacy policy covering data practices, rights, request methods, GPC handling, minors, contacts, and the last-updated date.
Apply California's regulations effective January 1, 2026 for risk-assessment triggers, phased cybersecurity audits, ADMT rights, evidence, reviews, and CPPA submissions.
Compare the original CCPA with the CPRA amendments and learn why current California privacy work must use the CCPA as amended, not two separate laws.
Compare the California CCPA and EU GDPR by scope, roles, legal basis, rights, advertising transfers, contracts, security, deadlines, and enforcement.
Apply the CCPA entity-by-entity: test California nexus, for-profit control, current thresholds, related-entity routes, exemptions, and processing roles.
A verifiable CCPA checklist for scope, data mapping, notices, rights, opt-outs, contracts, retention, security, risk assessments, audits, ADMT, and evidence.
Build a CCPA operating model for entity scope, data mapping, notices, rights, opt-outs, contracts, retention, security, assessments, audits, ADMT, and evidence.
Review CCPA privacy interfaces for plain language, symmetry, minimal steps, neutral presentation, valid consent, and reliable opt-out operation.
Test whether a CCPA business is also a California data broker, then assign registration, metrics, DROP, deletion, downstream, and audit duties.
Verify CCPA know, delete, correct, and ADMT-access requests with request-specific, secure, minimized methods without adding friction to opt-outs.
Understand CPPA investigations, Attorney General civil actions, CCPA administrative orders, current penalties, and the limited security-breach private action.
Decide whether a CCPA financial-incentive rule applies, then document the notice, data-value method, opt-in, withdrawal, and nondiscrimination checks.
Implement Global Privacy Control under the CCPA across browsers, devices, accounts, ad technology, downstream recipients, and consumer notices.
Build a CCPA Notice at Collection for online and offline collection points, including categories, purposes, sale or sharing, retention, links, and change control.
Classify CCPA personal information and sensitive personal information, apply exclusions, and map each category to notices, rights, retention, security, sale, and sharing.
Direct answers on CCPA scope, rights, notices, opt-outs, GPC, minors, sensitive information, financial incentives, and data brokers.
Choose and maintain each CCPA consumer notice: privacy policy, collection, sale or sharing, sensitive-information limits, financial incentives, and ADMT.
Build and maintain a CCPA privacy policy covering online and offline practices, 12-month disclosures, consumer rights, request methods, and annual updates.
Plain-language CCPA requirements covering scope, minimization, notices, rights, opt-outs, contracts, security, records, risk assessments, audits, and ADMT.
CCPA scope and threshold reference covering the current $26,625,000 revenue threshold, the 100,000-consumer-or-household test, related entities, and exemptions.
Classify CCPA recipients and check the distinct contract terms for service providers, contractors, and third parties before disclosing personal information.
Check CCPA service-provider and contractor agreements for specific purposes, use restrictions, consumer-request support, subcontractors, and remediation.
Apply the CCPA business thresholds per legal entity, including the 2025 CPI-adjusted revenue amount, volume and sale-or-sharing tests, and control routes.
Decide whether a CCPA business is also a California data broker and track registration, privacy metrics, DROP deletion, vendor, and audit duties.
Check a CCPA privacy interface for clear language, symmetrical choices, unnecessary steps, and other designs that can invalidate consent.
Determine whether a transfer is a CCPA sale or sharing, provide the required opt-out path, honor preference signals, and propagate the choice.
Assess a loyalty, discount, payment, or service program under the CCPA and document notice, opt-in, withdrawal, and data-value requirements.
Implement Global Privacy Control as a CCPA sale and sharing opt-out across browsers, devices, known accounts, and relevant downstream systems.
Apply the CCPA's under-13 parent authorization and age-13-to-15 consumer opt-in rules for sale or sharing of personal information.
Place a CCPA notice where consumers encounter it before collection and disclose categories, purposes, retention, sale or sharing, and required links.
Classify personal and sensitive personal information under the current CCPA, including exclusions and the duties each category can trigger.
Apply the CCPA revenue, data-volume, and sale-or-sharing revenue thresholds, then check California nexus, control, joint ventures, roles, and exemptions.
A practical guide to CCPA privacy-policy content, placement, annual updates, consumer rights, request methods, and supporting evidence.
Required CCPA contract terms, role checks, subcontractor flow-downs, oversight rights, and evidence for service providers and contractors.
Choose a proportionate CCPA verification method for know, delete, and correct requests without collecting unnecessary identity data.
CCPA triggers, deadlines, evidence, retention, and submission duties for risk assessments and annual cybersecurity audits.