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@Hyperhidrosis I looked it up, Linux already has a birthday on accounts and a way to query it. Linux is already compliant as long as distributions offer a way to enter the birthday, which nobody currently requires.

@verita84 @Hyperhidrosis it mandates that applications can query the current user age from how it was configured. On Linux that is already possible. The bill doesn't mandate using any off-machine API or any verification of any kind

@verita84 @Hyperhidrosis here's the bill:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

I read the entire thing

@sun @verita84 @grok summarize this bill in 2 paragraph

@verita84 @Hyperhidrosis the only thing Linux should have to change is, if you set up a non-system user account, you enter birthdate

@verita84 @Hyperhidrosis @grok again: that is an API for a program to query the operating system for the birthdate you set up. Not querying an age verification service somewhere else

@verita84 @Hyperhidrosis they are just avoiding computer jargon "API"

@verita84 @Hyperhidrosis it doesn't say or imply that anywhere at all.

@sneeden @verita84 @Hyperhidrosis I just read it again for a third time and yeah in fact it says that an application developer, in the presence of this data provided by the OS, cannot legally attempt to derive an "actual" age, it has to just use that data.