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Does anyone know if and how this would affect Android? Especially non-google AOSP based OSs like GrapheneOS?
Read the article bro
For software not exempted, the California Digital Age Assurance Act takes effect on 1 January 2027 for requiring age collection at device setup time and age-bracket signals for applications.
As a reminder, the law doesn't require age verification, only attestation. It's a really stupid law that accomplishes nothing for the services that now require age verification and nothing for the people opposed to it. It just makes some OSs (but apparently potentially no longer Android?) ask your age on account creation.
I still have no clue how this will work for Windows server (and the cursed Mac servers), but honestly it's on you for using that over a Linux server.
2027 Year of the Linux desktop...
I'm curious to see how age attestation / verification works in a corpo environment. Will employees be required to verify their age? That would be so stupid it's almost funny
Companies generally already know if they're hiring children
I agree. Companies also don't sign telecommunications contracts with minors. So regulating minor access to the internet / social media should be an non-issue. Yet here we are.
Why am I asking? Because if corpo deployments of windows can circumvent age attestations, then it can be done privately as well
So, all the parents have to do is form a company then to employ their child?
No, just download an enterprise edition of windows to circumvent unecessary profiling.