TrueNorthSpice 🇨🇦California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages — amendment proposed by the same lawmaker who wrote the original law
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Fight back. The decline in respect for human dignity through technology is not inevitable. Stop the bad ideas today.
RobI wonder if it's legal to submit your id, to a social media:
can just redact your name, and your address from it. Maybe keep the adult selfie for some type of proof of age, but as long that they got the supposive Id could you argue the social platform did the best they could had they shouldn't be legally responsible beyond that point?
If yes, would these platforms allow users to submit redacted ids that only contain necessary info or would they decline it because the point of age verification was to get all of your personal information available on that Id card to resell behind your back for profit?
I mean as long that it isn't obviously faked.
katalogeurCalifornia moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages — amendment proposed by the same lawmaker who wrote the original law
Baral'heia Stormdancer ΘΔ🐲Protip: While it doesn't always work, you can and should redact as much information from your ID as possible when forced to submit to online identity verification services.
Wladimir MuftyA new study by Georgia Tech and UC Irvine should make EU policymakers pause…
Researchers found that #Yoti, a major age verification provider used by platforms like Meta, OnlyFans, PlayStation and TikTok, expose users’ personal information to third and fourth parties.
Yet policymakers are rushing into digital age verification as if it is safe by design and belief commercial company claims on privacy by design.
The lobby is doing its job.
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-online-age-pointless-privacy.html
Online age checks create a pointless privacy risk
New cybersecurity research indicates that one of the world's leading age verification providers collects and shares highly sensitive personal data—including facial photos and device fingerprints—with third parties. The research also reveals that most websites that require age verification don't enforce the policy.
Jack AllnuttSystemd didn't introduce "age verification", so they don't have anything to remove now that a couple of US states have put an exemption for FOSS in their AV laws.
Spreading disinformation isn't okay just because you hate Systemd and/or Poettering. Do better.
Taran RampersadLinux may be exempt. 🙃
California's Age Verification Law May End Up Exempting Most Linux Distributions
While not as good as repealing AB 1043 outright for requiring operating system providers to ask for a user's age or birth date at device setup, open-source Linux distributions and other open-source OSes may end up seeing some reprieve before this law goes into effect at the start of 2027.
...Frosty! ❄️🦊If true, then there’s hope yet.
CA and CO (seem to be) exempting #opensource systems from #ageverification. Windows, OTOH…
Hopefully the age verification path inside #systemd can stay dead.
KelsonWell that's an improvement at least. The California legislature is revising the ridiculous age-verification bill before it goes into effect next year. Among other things it narrows the scope, exempts open source systems and apps not installed through an app store from the requirement, and exempts shared devices from liability.
It would still apply to Windows, macOS, iOS and Android, but it wouldn't apply to AOSP forks like LineageOS, or to Linux or BSD (though the article speculates it would still apply to Steam OS due to proprietary components shipped with the system)
Colorado is making similar changes to the bill they've been discussing.
Not as good at repealing/canceling, but better than letting the previous version stand.