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California passes law requiring age verification checks for all operating systems | Governor Newsom signs bills to further strengthen California’s leadership in protecting children online (www.gov.ca.gov)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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AB-1043 "Age verification signals: software applications and online services."

Text https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

Other info https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

California AB 1043 signed. Mandatory os-level, device-level, app store, and even developer-required age verification for all computing devices.

Edit: altered title from "ID check" to "Age Verification check"

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[–] hobovision@mander.xyz 40 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Please update your title to remove the misinformation about the bill, specifically calling it "OS-level ID verification" is not even close. It's not got anything to do with personally identifying information or any actual verification of age information.

It's actually an incredibly privacy conscious method of doing what it is trying to do, which is to allow parents to set up a child's account with their age information on a device and have that age bracket information passed to websites and applications. That way, it makes it harder for a child to bypass age-restrictions, but without requiring dangerous age verification methods such as ID or face scans.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

If you want parental controls, you can have them.

If you want parental controls with root, you can have those too.

They exist currently.

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