Amoxtli@thelemmy.club to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoCalifornia introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setupwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square354linkfedilinkarrow-up1671arrow-down119
arrow-up1652arrow-down1external-linkCalifornia introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setupwww.tomshardware.comAmoxtli@thelemmy.club to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square354linkfedilink
minus-squaresome_kind_of_guy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoJanuary 1st 2027 per the bill text https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043
minus-squarequalia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoI was wondering if they’d require that new REAL ID versus the older (and cheaper) State ID, but from what I can tell it’ll just involve a user-declared age to preserve privacy. At least initially.
January 1st 2027 per the bill text https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043
I was wondering if they’d require that new REAL ID versus the older (and cheaper) State ID, but from what I can tell it’ll just involve a user-declared age to preserve privacy. At least initially.