California decides that account creation - including Linux - needs age verification
A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup
The government of California is implementing a law that requires operating system providers to implement some form of age verification into their account setup procedures.
Assembly Bill No. 1043 was approved by California governor Gavin Newsom in October of last year, and becomes active on January 1, 2027 (via The Lunduke Journal). The bill states, among other factors, that "An operating system provider shall do all of the following:"
"(1) Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device for the purpose of providing a signal regarding the user’s age bracket to applications available in a covered application store.
"(2) Provide a developer who has requested a signal with respect to a particular user with a digital signal via a reasonably consistent real-time application programming interface that identifies, at a minimum, which of the following categories pertains to the user."
The categories are broken into four sections: users under 13 years of age, over 13 years of age under 16, at least 16 years of age and under 18, and "at least 18 years of age."
lol. lmao, even.
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I guess, it's time to download existing LTS versions now.
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I did not see that coming........
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What......
I have to be in a simulation, this can't be real.
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Good luck to the California government trying to enforce a KYC check on a headless Debian instance deployed via an API script.
Politicians legislating technology is always an absolute comedy show. I can't wait for the new Linux kernel patch that requires us to drink a verification can before getting sudo privileges. 😂
The only people selling Linux will probably implement it, and the ones giving it away will tell them to eat their ass 🤣
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Where does it say age verification?
Let me google that for you.
https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1043/id/3269704
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You can google it for me, but you cant understand it for me, so, jokes on you!
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Think the overall age verification trend is absolute cancer & I hate everything about that trend
...but this particular one seems ok to me
It seems desirable to me that adults should be able to mark a device as child age during account setup. Actively enforcing "hey is this a ipad that'll be in hands of a kid" makes sense in my mind
I see a product label update coming. "This product is not to be used in the state of California".
You're have to blow into a tube to verify you're not drunk in order to use sudo. Law's luckily don't apply to me.
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A built-in breathalyzer for sudo would actually save 90% of late-night rm -rf disasters. Maybe California is onto something here. 😂
Not buying any servers in california anymore!
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