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An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 5 days ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/linux@programming.dev

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Apparently this will include Linux...

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[–] forgetful_fox@lemmy.world 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No operating system needs to know the age of a user, it's just not within the scope of how it operates normally. Software will always be bypassed no matter what the law is. Brb, "moving" my computers using a VPN.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I can actually imagine this being pretty useful on phones so you can give a kid a phone but prevent it from installing certain software (from normal sources)

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

You can already require a pin to download anything off the store.