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Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. (youtu.be)
submitted 11 hours ago by qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 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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[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 132 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

They are taking the power of personal computing away from us...

[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 46 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I feel like there is a line coming with hardware and software and that will be the last of it's type as the move towards subscription based services is forced onto everyone. Its a shame people won't vote with their wallets. It just means I'll have my basement crammed with old tech and I'll go full old man mode and stop keeping up with technological progress.

[–] flightyhobler@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Too bad you will need hard drives for that. And all the rest.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 16 points 8 hours ago

Thats my plan.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 84 points 10 hours ago

Pretty much. They‘re essentially outlawing privacy so there will be no point in resisting. This is worse than Orwellian.

[–] ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world -3 points 6 hours ago

This will make it more anonymous because verification relies on a token defined in the OS rather than uploading identification.