Re:California Governor signs law requiring online age checks
by p_l on Friday September 16, 2022 @05:26PM
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Unless they patched few things out recently, the bill was written so that:
a) you had to make complex design reviews to prove that you did everything right for the children - even if your site wasn't targeted at children, because what it amounted to was "can a child access the service"
b) The age verification requirements to properly disprove that the accessing party isn't a child were idiotically draconic (thus the surveillance part)
And IIRC, just having accounts could lead to "you're gathering data".
last moment edit: I found the original posting about it:
a) you had to make complex design reviews to prove that you did everything right for the children - even if your site wasn't targeted at children, because what it amounted to was "can a child access the service"
b) The age verification requirements to properly disprove that the accessing party isn't a child were idiotically draconic (thus the surveillance part)
And IIRC, just having accounts could lead to "you're gathering data".
last moment edit: I found the original posting about it:
article: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/08/24/dear-california-law-make...
HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32587592