How does this work with ephemeral servers though? How does this impact a piece of software I’m self hosting and sharing online? Am I going to be fined potentially thousands if my website can’t process the operating systems age bracket signal?

I agree a lot of the coverage is sensational but there are also gaps and nuisances involved the expose people to litigation for no real societal benefit. It also feels like a very slippery slope to more invasive age verification online.

But from where was this data sourced if the drivers were not caught?

No

Thanks I figured that out lol. But still, why comment it here? 🙃

There’s a watermark on the page of a TikTok account… “heiress_ke”. Seems like a Kenyan account.

I suspect those are bots pulling in context from that username somehow?

Or folks who get off on providing zero context for their musings, who can say

Where do you see this in the post?

I know that bandwidth isn’t hardly the finite resource that it used to be, but I still can’t get over how amazingly wasteful it is to continuously stream live video halfway around the world just so you can… ask your glasses to describe what’s in front of you?

1000%

And TIL the phrase “violent agreement” 😆

Yeah I agree. And while the onus of that implementation is on developers to comply with the law, there is still negative impact on end users by creating those barriers.

It isn’t mandating you affirm you’re older than 18. It’s asking explicitly for your age or your birthday.

While the API then would take that data to transmit your age bracket to other systems.

This might not be drastically burdensome on an individual workstation, I’ll stand corrected on that. And it’s not disclosing your actual birthdate to anyone either (though I still feel like it should be my choice whether or not to store that information on my personal device).

In either case, we started with this “affirm your age” kind of law on various kinds of restricted websites (pornography and alcohol) and it’s easy to just lie. So now that is now morphing into more invasive age verification strategies.

I view this law as easily circumvented theater that has the aside effect of being a slippery slope toward more aggressive anti-privacy systems in the future.