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Why not parents responsible for their own goddamn kids? Stop interfering with the rest of our privacy for this bullshit. Parental controls have existed for decades. Fucking use them.
... That is literally what this law does.
When a parent creates the account for their child they specify the age. If the parent decides to lie or circumvent the system and it affects their child then they would be fined.
Just to be clear the law itself says absolutely nothing about actually verifying the age.
It also makes it mandatory to include this feature in every OS. It means you'll be sending telemetry about who you are to anyone that wants it and you don't have a choice. Fuck that. I don't have kids, there's no reason I should have to use an OS with this shit.
The law actually has a specific provision preventing both os providers and developers from sending your information to whoever they want.
And the OS is only allowed to send the minimum information that is required. Ie. your age bracket.
Wake me when that actually leads to enforcement penalties. This law is vague enough as it is, no company is going to get slammed for "accidentally" skipping a user permission check, and having their FunPad app offer up your age info to one of Palantir's long fingers.