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An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 1 day ago by ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Apparently this will include Linux...

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[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 21 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

In essence, while the bill doesn't seem to require the most egregious forms of age verification (face scans or similar), it does require OS providers to collect age verification of some form at the account/user creation stage—and to be able to pass a segmented version of that information to outside developers upon request.

So you just fake a date and call it a day… thank you Cali…

For real though I can’t imagine the sysadmin and docker nightmares that arise from having to completely overhaul your account orchestration scripts to input a garbage birthday.

I don’t think anyone thought of the fact that an account on an OS doesn’t always correspond to a human.

[–] Archr@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

The law only specifies "computer, mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device."

Which is extremely vague. It appears that the intention was to just affect end user devices. Not specific purpose systems.