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This new "privacy" law will require that all operating system providers must start collecting your birth date every app you install will need to ask your OS provider for that information. It's whac...

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[–] nicgentile@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No it is not. There is no way this is enforceable. At all.

[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That sounds positive. For us to see what you see, can you elaborate?

[–] RipLemmDotEE@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not the original commenter, but from what I've read, the laws would require operating systems to collect name and DOB in the user account setup process. No facial scans, photos, IDs or other verification required, so it seems very easily bypassed by simply lying.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

And beyond that, couldn't one just access the non-Cali version? If they want me to verify my age, I'll just add lying about where I live to the list.

Fortunately, I'm from California-east (New Jersey), and we have actual problems over here, and so this isn't on the list. Yet.

[–] ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Without a key you won't be able to access restricted material.

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Excuse me while I die laughing. Sure you regulated a site on the internet... But did you regulate all of them?

See also: the completely non existent piracy sites... And let's be honest every other thing that they totally scrubbed off the internet...

It'd be a shorter list to list things they successfully got rid of...

I'll start:

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