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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”
I’ve always felt like the whole age verification thing was simply a failure of the OS. Yes, kids could potentially setup their own device, but most likely it is being setup by a parent. The parent should be able to create a the admin account, then an account for the child flag as a child account. The browser and any apps could then read that flag and act appropriately.
It seems like a simple solution that would be rather easy to implement for any multi-user OS. For single user OSs like Android and iOS, they have user accounts to fall back on that can work exactly the same.
This puts the control in the parents hands, and responsibility too.
Pretty sure this is what the PS3 did at least in affect. You could flag a profile for child use and it’d block games with certain ratings based off the settings, then you could just password the adult accounts. Good way to stop little Timmy from playing GTA at least, hell I think you could also put in exclusions so if you wanted to allow an specific game it wouldn’t be blocked.
I like it for that reason too. If you’re so worried about the children, then you can check a box that says this is a minor’s account. If a parent can’t be bothered with that then it’s on them, and should be on them.