Sarah Jamie Lewis @sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
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RE: mastodon.social/@sarahjamielew

Something I want to make clear:

The "age verification" bit of the CA/CO laws are not the bit I care about i.e. a law that requires an operating systems to implement some kind of parental control feature is...whatever.

The bits I care about are the obligations on developers to call APIs and then that invocation being taken as evidence of knowledge.

Specifically, I think a -legal- requirement to:

- make any kind of call is an attack on speech
- know a users age (bracket) is a privacy violation

Sarah Jamie Lewis @sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
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The way I expect this to go down is that Android/iOS/etc. will roll out an age bracket API call in the near future and tie that API call to some set of foundational permissions (e.g. internet access / file access / etc) - they have done this in the past, notably for API deprecation.

A minimally invasive implementation of this will likely only restrict apps running if the OS itself is being run in a kids-mode .

(But that isn't what the laws actually require)

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