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My Steam account is 21 years old and can now buy alcohol. Does that count?
They don't care. They want your face, retina, fingerprints, DNA. All for their LLMs and so they can sell you something else.
Also to blackmail you later if they think they can or just feel like it... because they will put all that shit on an insecure server and some 13 year old hacker in Turkmenistan will leak it and make a killing (literally and figuratively) with it.
FYI, I am not a lawyer.
Have you actually read the bill itself? Nowhere in it does it mention any of the things that you mentioned. It doesn't even mention ID cards at all.
What it does say is operating system providers shall "Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device". What we should look out for is that the law does not forbid OS providers from requiring IDs.
It does however require that OS providers "Send only the minimum amount of information necessary to comply with this title and shall not share the digital signal information with a third party for a purpose not required by this title." (emphasis mine)
I wonder how much this is news outlets overreacting to a proposed bill that is not actually that bad, or if this is some marketing against the bill by some Corp.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043
So everyone's windows OS will be registered to Mike Hunt born 1/1/1970. Gotcha
This actually speaks to one of the concerning things about this law. There is a section forbidding developers from collecting additional information (unless they have confident information that your age is incorrect). But there is no such clause for OS providers.
Developers shall not "Request more information from an operating system provider or a covered application store than the minimum amount of information necessary to comply with this title."
Or
"Share the signal with a third party for a purpose not required by this title."
This means that discord could not collect IDs or face scans without confidence that your age is incorrect. But windows can still require whatever they want.
But I guess silver lining is that neither of them can sell or even share the data with 3rd parties. Pretty minimal silver lining though.