Law passed enabling actors to remove age from IMDb

California's Customer Records bill has been welcomed by actors' union SAG-AFTRA as a welcome challenge to age discrimination in the film industry

The state of California has passed legislation that will enable actors and other film industry workers to remove their ages from the Internet Movie Database and other publicly accessible websites.

The Customer Records bill, numbered AB-1687, was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown on 24 September and specifies that subscribers to a "commercial online entertainment employment service provider" can demand that age information be removed. The rationale is to "ensure that information " regarding an individual's age will not be used in furtherance of employment or age discrimination."