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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”
Bullshit. This is not a voluntary thing that parents can choose to do or not: it is an enforced, mandatory requirement that is foisted upon literally all programs, regardless of user choice or whether it makes any sense at all to do so. Oh, and there’s a penalty of TWO HOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS for EACH VIOLATION for EACH CHILD.
Download a foreign video app on your smart TV that doesn’t comply? Congrats, the pigs will fine a three-child family $7500 for the crime of watching manga.
You live in the US. You know that this will be unequally applied to the poor and minorities. You know that this will be used as an excuse to search people’s devices at massive scale. You know that companies will simply shrug and use face ID anyway, because they already have to do it for other locales, so why not just reuse the same process? You know that this is a foot in the door for the facists and capitalists. You know all this, so stop running interference for them.
The law has no way to go after parents, unless there’s already some law on the books that does so and the penalties defined in this one somehow apply to that.
The penalties defined in this law are for OS providers not having a way to set age data within an account on a device or for not sending the age signal when requested and for developers ignoring the age signal or not requesting it.