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California is embedding age verification directly into digital devices. For those of us concerned with personal liberties, this is an emergency.

California’s Age-Verification Law Is a Civil Liberties Test
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/californias-age-verification-law-is-a-civil-liberties-test/

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California’s Age-Verification Law Is a Civil Liberties Test | The Daily Economy

The law classifies user identities at the operating system level. Once embedded, that regulatory architecture of control is easy to expand and difficult to ...

Mar 5 at 8:40pmWeb
Show threadLukefromDCMar 14

@salixlucida This has countermeasures. At the moment you can simply lie about your age, then de-google the phone to block future updates to the Google Play Store or Google Play Services that will presumably demand ID.

Google could legally demand a birthday only to set up a Google Account for a phone as these laws demand age verification "at account formation." You can still skip making a Google account, so if Google wants a birthday anyway that's data harvesting not legal compliance

Another that will keep working is to buy a used device predating this over Ebay/Craigslist/whatever and factory reset it. This should wipe out any Google Play updates, though base OS updates will remain applied. Since underlying Android is open source with closed drivers, it's not a good place to try to hide age/identity verification code. Reset it, do NOT tie it to a Google Account, then de-Google it.

Be sure to get something old enough to have a removable battery, as original batteries will be on their last legs. Also be advised that BLU phones and probably other cheap imported phones often don't last even after stripping out factory malware. I've seen heatsinks cook off, display failures, RAM issues, the works,