Canonical will absolutely be the first party to implement ID checks in linux.
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@VD15 @phnt @romin the way it's worded you can infer it's for actual human user accounts, which incidentally linux at least can distinguish between system accounts and end user accounts already. the difficulty is that the bill yeah doesn't have any way to distinguish that a system administrator on a computer might be underage themself. but, the bill basically as written says whatever is in there the application maker has to believe.
I was more surprised that people didn't pick up on this, this isn't just a law that affects vendors, it clearly affects everyone who writes programs for an OS, because it requires you to use this functionality and not bypass it.
I was more surprised that people didn't pick up on this, this isn't just a law that affects vendors, it clearly affects everyone who writes programs for an OS, because it requires you to use this functionality and not bypass it.
@VD15 @phnt @romin yeah lol the bill straight up says if the os provides a number you can't use other means to derive an age. in my reading.
technically everywhere the bill says you have to provide queryable age brackets (doesn't define them) so laughably you could have an age bracket above/below 18, or I guess you could have a bracket that's every year so you get their actual age
technically everywhere the bill says you have to provide queryable age brackets (doesn't define them) so laughably you could have an age bracket above/below 18, or I guess you could have a bracket that's every year so you get their actual age
@WALFTEAM @phnt @romin @sun The US is a clown-based ecosystem where unlawful search and seizure is unconstitutional, but if a private company was spying on the entire public 24/7, the government can just politely ask them to hand over everything they have on you and everything's perfectly above board.