AB 2169 California Assembly · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Social media platforms: artificial intelligence models.

Summary
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) grants a consumer various rights with respect to personal information, as defined, that is collected or sold by a business, as defined, including the right to request that a business that collects personal information about the consumer disclose to the consumer certain information about that personal information, including the categories of personal information it has collected about that consumer and the specific pieces of personal information it has collected about that consumer. This bill, the Digital Choice Act, would require a social media company or a person that makes an artificial intelligence model available to a third party for use, modification, copying, or combination with other software, defined as a deployer, to allow a consumer to request a copy of the consumer's personal information, contextual data, and social graph and would require the social media company or deployer to respond to that request within five business days in a format that is, among other things, portable to the extent technically feasible. The bill would define "contextual data" to mean information provided by a user to an artificial intelligence model and any context or derivative data associated with the user's interactions with the artificial intelligence model, as specified, and any model-generated or inferred data linked to or generated from those interactions. The bill would define "social graph" to mean data that represents a person's connections and interactions within a social media platform, as specified. This bill would require, among other things, a social media company to implement a transparent, third-party-accessible interoperability interface that allows a user to choose to share a covered user's social graph or user-selected parts of the social graph to a social media platform designated by the user and enable a third party to, with the user's permission, access a social graph created by the user and be notified when a new or updated social graph is available, as prescribed. The bill would require a deployer to implement a third-party-accessible interoperability interface to allow a user to share the user's contextual data directly with other artificial intelligence models as the user designates and enable those artificial intelligence models to be notified when new or updated data is available, as prescribed. This bill would authorize the Attorney General to adopt specified regulations, as provided, and require the Attorney General to enforce the bill's provisions by bringing an administrative action, as specified.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2026
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Feb 18, 2026 Last action May 14, 2026
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04/23/26 - Amended Assembly AB2169 · 2 edits
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This diff reflects a change in document format and rendering rather than a substantive policy change. The bill text of AB 2169 (the Digital Choice Act) remains identical between the two versions; the differences are limited to the removal of traditional legislative formatting (line numbers, page headers/footers) and the addition of web-based navigation elements for an online bill viewer.
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Actions timeline

Total actions
10
Key actions
4
Committee
6
Amendments
2
May 14, 2026
Lower · Passed
In committee: Held under submission.
lower
May 13, 2026
Committee
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
lower
Apr 27, 2026
Committee
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
lower
Apr 23, 2026
Lower · Passed
Read second time and amended.
lower
Apr 22, 2026
Introduced
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (April 21).
lower
Apr 6, 2026
Lower · Passed
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
lower
Mar 16, 2026
Committee
Referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
lower
Feb 19, 2026
Lower · Passed
From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

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Legislator
Party
State
District
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Photo of Josh Lowenthal
Josh Lowenthal
DDemocratic
CA
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