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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Tuesday, August 1st.

I'm Zoe Thomas for The Wall Street Journal.

When Apple introduced screen time controls in 2018,

it held the promise of an easy fix for parents looking to monitor how much time their kids spent on devices.

But a bug in Apple's system is thwarting those efforts.

The iPhone maker says it's working on updates to improve the situation,

but in the meantime, parents are left using clunkyer methods to limit their children's screen time.

Our family and tech columnist, Julie Jargan, will join us to explain.

But first, connected cars are the first focus of California's new privacy regulator.

The California Privacy Protection Agency was established in 2020

and is the only regulator in the nation solely dedicated to privacy issues.

Its enforcement abilities kicked in last month.

The agency plans to look at the growing amount of data collected by smart vehicles

and whether the company's gathering it comply with state law.

Modern cars can collect a lot of information from location to driving patterns to listening habits

and it's valuable to a host of industries,

including insurance companies, satellite radio providers, and law enforcement.

Not to mention the car makers themselves.

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