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Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. (youtu.be)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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TLDW:

Brazil is requiring OS level age verification by march 17th, 2026.

New York about to vote on a law that would "require all manufacturers of internet-enabled devices, operating systems, or application stores to conduct commercially reason-able and technically feasible age assurance for users at the point of device activation."

In order to “incentivize” age verification, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that they will ignore COPPA violations for software performing age verification.

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[–] 95 points 6 months ago (1 child)

13 days 😂 Tell me you don't know how software development works or how operating systems are developed without telling me.

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  • [–] 57 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Unless someone already has age verification ready to go and wanted to be a monopoly for a while.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    looks at Palantir

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    And Persona (it's from the same guy).

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Neither of which make OSs

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    You might want to look into who's funding NixOS...

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    link pls

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Anduril is a huge donor/sponsor of Nix Foundation and NixCon

    https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixcon-na-2024-is-getting-sponsored-by-anduril-what-to-do-about-it/41258/1

    https://discourse.nixos.org/t/andurils-threat-is-existential/70811?page=6

    https://old.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1cfbz26/should_nisos_have_accepted_the_anduril_sponsorship/

    Although it seems to be a matter of debate within the Nix community as to the nature and scope of open-source software and what limitations, if any, can (or should) be imposed...

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