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California Right-to-Delete Bill Advances
Coverage from California State Senator Steve Padilla, Hoodline, and others
California Senate Bill 1247 would give people who appeared in monetized online content as minors the ability to request deletion or editing of that material after turning 18.
Authored by Senator Steve Padilla, the measure extends California’s recent protections for child content creators from earnings to control over their digital identities. The bill has advanced in the Senate but still faces Assembly consideration, implementation questions, and potential free-speech concerns.
The main update is procedural: SB 1247 has now cleared the California Senate unanimously and is moving into Assembly review, while the framing has been sharpened around deletion, editing, and redaction rights for monetized content featuring minors. The current version also adds more explicit unresolved issues, including coverage thresholds and journalism exemptions.