Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

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rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

It says that OS developers must track users or be fined, so they will track users.

Explicitly bars OS devs from sending more data than explicitly necessary to meet 1

The statute does not define:

What counts as “minimum”

How necessity is measured

Whether “minimum” refers to data fields, granularity, frequency, or retention

Whether metadata (e.g., device ID, timestamp, API call logs) is included or excluded

This legislature calls App Providers and developers to track people and barely even gives lipservice to what is allowed.

We don’t want our OS’s tied to our identities. This does not explicitly forbid that

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