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Chris Siebenmann @cks@mastodon.social

3/4/2026, 2:27:24 AM

Public

CA age-checking law

I've read CA AB-1043¹ and as an innocent outsider some things strike me as alarming, apart from the whole idea:
* OSes aren't allowed to not answer or lie to nosy programs.
* programs must ask on launch and then are deemed to have "actual knowledge" of the person's age bracket, which sounds legally significant.
* there's no explicit carve-out for "not for use in CA" things.
* almost everything seems covered including eg the Debian package collection.

¹ https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

Bill Text - AB-1043 Age verification signals: software applications and online services.

AB 1043 Age verification signals: software applications and online services.

leginfo.legislature.ca.gov

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