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Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. (youtu.be)
submitted 22 hours ago by qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Brazil is requiring OS level age verification by march 17th, 2026.

New York about to vote on a law that would "require all manufacturers of internet-enabled devices, operating systems, or application stores to conduct commercially reason-able and technically feasible age assurance for users at the point of device activation."

In order to “incentivize” age verification, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that they will ignore COPPA violations for software performing age verification.

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[–] Mikina@programming.dev 70 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

So this is the thing I'll eventually end up in jail for bypassing. I coul've sworn it would be drugs.

Oh well.

[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Yeah, the fact that I can wave to a cop walking out of a store where I just bought some pot, but might face massive fines for not doing age verification for a pong game I wrote is insane. I mean, I still want to be able to smoke my pot legally, but I also don't want to have to care about who plays pong.

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