Governments around the world are currently attempting to implement strict online child safety measures, fundamentally changing how everyday devices connect to the internet. As part of this push, lawmakers are looking past individual apps and targeting the underlying operating systems. They want the OS itself to verify a user’s age during initial setup. Colorado lawmakers […]

The coordinated effort worked. When lawmakers finalized Colorado SB26-051, they added Section 6-30-105(e) to the text. This specific clause waives compliance for operating systems and applications distributed under licenses that allow copying, modifying, and redistributing without platform-imposed technical restrictions. Why the Section 6-30-105(e) Exemption Protects Decentralized Tech

This exemption establishes a formal legislative precedent for the tech industry. It legally shields free and open-source operating systems from hardware-level age attestation laws that closed ecosystems like iOS and Windows will soon have to follow.

    • badgermurphy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      23 hours ago

      I’m not in a GPDR jurisdiction, but if memory serves, is there not some clause preventing service providers for compelling me to “willingly” provide information to access the service, similar to a “duress” situation?

      • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
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        22 hours ago

        There is something like that but I’m not sure it really has the force we all wanted it to. I don’t know if it’s been tested in court yet, but the optimistic people thought it would ban any kind of “be tracked or else you have to pay”, but I believe a lot of services are operating exactly this way.