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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Assembly Bill

AB 2561: Operating systems and applications: privacy settings.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

AB 2561 is a assembly bill introduced in the California Assembly on February 20, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Operating systems and applications: privacy settings. Primary sponsor: Avelino Valencia (D). Most recent recorded action (September 27, 2026): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 478, Statutes of 2026.

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Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, grants a consumer various rights with respect to personal information that is collected or sold by a business, as defined, including the right to direct a business that sells or shares personal information about the consumer to third parties not to sell or share the consumer’s personal information, as specified.

Existing law, beginning January 1, 2027, prohibits a business from developing or maintaining a browser, as defined, that does not include functionality configurable by a consumer that enables the browser to send an opt-out preference signal, as defined, to businesses with which the consumer interacts through the browser, as prescribed.

This bill would prohibit an operating system or an application from undoing a user’s affirmative configuration of a user’s privacy setting without the user’s consent, except as specified. The bill would define “privacy setting” to mean any user-configurable option within an application’s privacy, or similarly labeled, menu that governs the application’s collection, use, sharing, disclosure, retention, or processing of the user’s personal information.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Avelino ValenciaPrimary sponsorDemocraticAssembly68

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 478, Statutes of 2026.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
  4. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6650.).
  5. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
  6. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.).
  7. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  8. Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
  9. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  10. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 8).
  11. Referred to Com. on P., D.T., & C.P.
  12. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page