Here is a link to learn more about the bill.
It is also important to note this legislation also includes language for ongoing, real-time monitoring. Not just verification
Here is a summary from the link shared above:
Requires manufacturers of internet-enabled devices to conduct age assurance to determine a user’s age category and provide all websites, online services, online applications and mobile applications on such user’s internet-enabled device and/or application store manufactured by the covered manufacturer with a digital signal that such user is a covered minor as well as the age category of such covered minor via a real-time application programming interface (API).
I love the inclusion of the API acronym; all super serious sounding. Like these dumb pedophiles even know what an API is!
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I’m fine if companies want to set up the ability to create child accounts. I should not be legally required to disclose private information to exist online. There is already a disgusting amount of surveillance and theft of private information that happens, and we should be doing more to protect everyone’s personal data. Instead we are giving bad actors more tools to gather that data.
That’s basically the difference, and it’s an important difference. CA/CO only require attestation. As an adult, you have the ability to create a child’s account, which is a simple flag which can be used by browsers to say that this account is under aged. The adult is attesting that it is a child. They can make it anything.
NY is a whole different thing. They are requiring verification, as in the OS must check ID, facial scan, something against a third party to let you use your own computer, which then will set the boolean flag. Of course, most 3rd party online checkers will keep all info about you, so you basically lost all privacy right there.
It is still requiring my OS to push an identifying flag to literally anyone that asks. I want to give less info, not more. I already think that the digital landscape overshares data. The more data can be requested, the simpler it is to digitally fingerprint. So I still do not want it to be part of my OS.
If the individual app/program/website wants to ask for age during account setup, that’s fine since there is the expectation of some data sharing to create am account. It should not be part of my device/OS.
I would accept the option to create an account but all validation happens locally on the machine. I’m not sure exactly how that would work, but if a child account tries to access pornhub, it gets blocked. Basically this difference between user and admin accounts but somehow it works on external sources. Anything more is pure bullshit.
There are already a lot of products that build in parental controls like that. And if a parent chooses to use them, then great. There shouldn’t be laws involved in that, and it shouldn’t impact me, my hardware, or my software.
I’d even accept requiring that websites serving adult content like violence and pornography be legally required to have a site tag of some sort to facilitate parental control software functions. That wouldn’t require users to share anything identifying, doesn’t put a heavy burden on software developers or content hosts, and would achieve the claimed goals of these bullshit laws.
I agree. I was just proposing a solution the wouldn’t drive me from computers that could be accepted by these idiots trying to pass the legislation. I don’t think there needs to be anything, but if they’re going to force a tool, it should be optional and local.