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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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[–] 40 points 6 months ago (4 children)

How on earth are they going to enforce this in smaller IOT chips? I just got an esp32-c3 for like $1.50. I highly doubt that things is able to run whatever bloatware they are going to require.

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  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago

    Hardware that can be manufactured on larger nodes can't really be stopped, and the (black) market for both old and new free hardware will be big, considering all the things that will inevitably be banned. As always, don't comply in advance

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  • [+] -21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    It literally only requires a single bit flag.

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