California law CA AB1043
Lucas Holt <[email protected]>
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California is requiring age verification checks for account creation at the OS level with a signal API to provide information to applications in 2027. They explicitly call out individual developers or companies with fines of 2500 dollars per child affected. I wondered if anyone has started looking into this on the FreeBSD side. The way I read this, we would need to implement changes when creating accounts, provide a mechanism to check from apps (library), and provide support within package managers to filter apps? Then browsers would need to implement this and call the respective OS APIs for age verification for desktop use. It seems like it makes sense for multiple *NIX systems to implement a similar mechanism across platforms. The paragraph near the bottom seems to indicate that it wouldn't apply to server use since indirect signals aren't required to be honored. For reference: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1043/id/3269704 -- Lucas Holt [email protected] ________________________________________________________ MidnightBSD.org (Free OS) JustJournal.com (Free blogging)