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California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] BartyDeCanter 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes it fucking does. Go read the bill, particularly section 1798.501.b, 1798.502.a and b. Every developer of every application that can be downloaded from every package system MUST request your age bracket every time it is downloaded. And possibly every time it is launched. Basic utilities like ‘ls’ and ‘cat’, that pong example I pushed as a test, everything.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Me: It doesn't require anything of users You: Yes it does require something of developers

??

You are correct, but how does that disagree with my comment?

[–] BartyDeCanter 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, I see that I was unclear.

Yes it fucking does require sending the data somewhere, specifically to every "application store", which by their definition includes such things as Github, PyPI, Crates.io, Debian mirrors, apt/rpm repos, and personal websites that have hobby projects from more than one person.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Can you quote the relevant part of the bill? I don't see it. From what I'm reading:

  • The OS provider has to collect the age information from the user
  • The OS provider has to make the age information available to any app that asks for it
  • The developer of any app has to request the age information from either the OS or from an Application Store

There is nothing about how the Application Store obtains the age information (presumably they mean something like Google Play or the App Store that already have the information about users and of course haven't considered anything else), and there is nothing about the OS sending the age anywhere other than an app running on it that asks for it.