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A new California law lets children of family vloggers make their parents take down all footage of them

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A new California law lets children of family vloggers make their parents take down all footage of them

A new California law will protect the children of family vloggers once they turn 18.

Senate Bill No. 1247 gives adults whose parents, legal guardians, or family members used them in social media content while they were minors the right to demand removal of said content.

Once served a notice of removal, parents/guardians/etc have 10 days to take down violative content or edit it to remove the requester’s appearances. If those 10 days pass and the content is still up, vloggers will face penalties of $3,000 per day moving forward, plus further potential damages, injunctive relief, and attorney’s fees.

Now, to be clear, this law won’t let someone take their mom to court for posting Facebook pictures of them in an embarrassing Halloween costume (though we do think parents should more carefully consider what they post about their kid online, especially in the age of AI).

S.B. 1247 has a couple requirements that tune it to specifically target professional family vloggers.

We’re guessing it could potentially apply if a parent signed a financial agreement with a family vlogger to have their kid appear in the family’s content on a regular basis, but that circumstance isn’t accounted for in S.B. 1247’s current form.

The law will also lay a mandate on social media platforms: Once it kicks in, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and all other sites “shall provide a clear and conspicuous mechanism by which a child influencer can request a vlogger” remove content featuring them, according to the bill’s text. If a platform doesn’t have a built-in mechanism, it has to be responsible for receiving removal requests, and is required to forward those requests to vloggers within three days of receipt.


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