Linux in California is in deep trouble.
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This new "privacy" law will require that all operating system providers must start collecting your birth date every app you install will need to ask your OS provider for that information. It's whac...
  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
    311·
    2 months ago

    Just add a “Not To Be Used In California” note.

    If - yep, a VERY big If - that happened it would at least trigger a larger discussion. At the moment, no-one in the general public knows about this erosion of privacy.

  • Fokeu@lemmy.zip
    20·
    2 months ago

    Just think about the children™ bro. We are doing everything to save the children™ bro. Trust me bro.

  • FaunHauser@lemmy.ml
    11·
    2 months ago

    Just do what MidnightBDS did. MidnightBSD has decided to change its license to prohibit use in California. There, problem sorted. Anyone in California wanting MBDS can simply use a vpn. BTW, MBDS is one of those happy kind of discoveries (serendipity?) I’ve just made. Check them out.

  • 0t79JeIfK01RHyzo@lemmy.mlEnglish
    111·
    2 months ago

    I didn’t realize it at first, but Pornhub has also been requesting device based age verification legislation.

  • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    101·
    2 months ago

    A couple months ago Glock redesigned their pistols to mechanically block the ability for people to stick a cheep part in it that makes it effectively shoot full auto. About 24 hours later someone worked out a way around it.

    Where there’s a will, there’s a way. This shit will be cracked by the end of the week it goes into effect.

  • Corngood@lemmy.ml
    82·
    2 months ago

    Every app does not need to check your birth date. An app will be able to query if the user is within one of a few broad ranges of age (e.g. under 18), but an app only has to do that if it needs to comply with some other legislation.

      • aksdb@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 months ago

        Who exactly gains anything from forcing lets say Krita to implement an age check?

          • aksdb@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 months ago

            The comment you answered to said not all software has to implement age checks; only those who actually deal with age relevant content. You said it would be a foot in the door. So… who’s foot to do what?

              • aksdb@lemmy.world
                1·
                2 months ago

                How would the current approach help?

                Its not invasive yet (no third party, no ID, no verification; its basically just another user controlled date field that is not even exposed). So it is not lowering any barrier in that regard.

                It’s also not a helpful intermediary step for harder measures, because as soon as you want a third party to do attestation, storing that on a user controlled device is just unnecessary complexity and risk of circumvention. It would be easier and safer (for those introducing it) to just let the attesting party talk to the providers directly.

      • Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.world
        32·
        2 months ago

        Slippery nipples!!!

        Actual bad laws are being passed, why not focus on them instead of hyperventilating about a law. That doesn’t do what people are claiming it does.

  • LordCrom@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    Each app needs to check age? So like every one of the hundred windows processes need to do this?

  • DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 months ago

    In my country, Brazil, on March 17 the age verification will be law on every OS… so technically Linux will be “illegal” too :(