Governor Newsom signs bills to further strengthen California’s leadership in protecting children online | Governor of California
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  • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Yeah it’s so good damn vague, you can say a simple checkbox of “I am above the age of majority” would suffice, or a full actual ID check whenever you make an account at Microsoft.

    I think Linux distros will have to either make a check/declaration on their website or just block IP addresses from California.

    I don’t know how far this will go, or if it means anything different by the start of 2026, when make laws here go into effect.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Yeah reading through the bill I’m feeling better about it.

      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.

      Where an “Account Holder” is:

      (1) “Account holder” means an individual who is at least 18 years of age or a parent or legal guardian of a user who is under 18 years of age in the state. (2) “Account holder” does not include a parent of an emancipated minor or a parent or legal guardian who is not associated with a user’s device.

      The way I read this, this bill actually assumes the person installing it is over 18 and an adult. (Let’s not argue with them on that). It’s simply saying that "You need to provide a way to create child accounts, and your app stores will need to respect that).

      What I do not see is that OS’s must validate IDs or anything.

      provide an accessible interface that allows 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.

      “Mom or dad need to set the age bracket for junior so that apps rated NSFW can’t be downloaded”

      This title does not require the collection of additional personal information from device owners or device users other than that which is necessary to comply with Section 1798.501.

      Honestly, rereading it, this is how I would do age protection if I were to do it. Rereading this multiple times now, this might be the most privacy safe way to validate age, shut up lawmakers who cry “what about teh children!!!” and let us adults move on in peace.

      You buy jr a laptop, it’ll ask on account creation how old they are. That’ll be a flag they can’t modify that will be passed into browsers and app stores. That will prevent children from accessing content they can’t. Adults then continue on. Jr grows up and either buys his own device, or mom and dad swap their account to adult.

            • hobovision@mander.xyz
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              8 months ago

              Google could do it right now if they wanted to. It’s not against the law to require your customers to provide PII to use services. It just opens them to bad press, liability for mishandling the data, and potentially liability for knowing a user is a minor and showing them mature content anyway.

      • 0x0@lemmy.zip
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        8 months ago

        If parents want nanny software they can install it on windows, no need to forcefeed this bullshit on everyone else.

        • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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          8 months ago

          It’s going to be a drop-down that a parent can select on account creation. No one is being forced into it, unless mom bought your device.