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.
The law does not exempt server OS and non-interactive software or software that doesn’t need age verification for any reason (like a calculator or offline text editor). It’s a nightmare for those reasons alone.
2027 is way too soon for developers to need to implement this because operating systems will first have to decide on the shape of the “signal”, and there will necessarily be knee-jerk “fuck you” reactions. Then verification needs to be implemented in hundreds of different programming languages and paradigms. Then developers can start to implement. I guess all my little toy applications that are publicly available on GitHub are now out of compliance, fuck me though.
See my other comment on this post for a longer breakdown of why I believe this is utterly stupid.
Worked at a software dev that was so niche we basically had a monopoly by default. No one is touching that software outside the workplace. Laughing thinking about tomorrow’s meetings.
“Seriously? We have to add age verification?!”
Can still be used to write 80085. Gotta protect the children.