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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.
Hopefully you’re right, and the law doesn’t allow for an expansion of this to include “just give google your id bro”.
You can read it, it’s in your link. From what I read it explicitly says they cannot gather more info than they need.
Oh I know, but I’m hoping that Google can’t find another law that enables it. They have money for good lawyers for these things.
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.