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Re:US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification by ranger_danger on Friday April 17, 2026 @06:42PM (#47811360)
I think you are assuming what their definition of "verify" is going to be, but it's not actually written in the text of the bill, so we don't know. Similar laws in some states only asked the OS to collect the age, it specifically doesn't say that the information must ever be accurate, stored or used for anything.
Re:US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification by cmiles74 on Friday April 17, 2026 @08:29PM (#47812071)
Collecting the age will be done via a photo of a legal US state ID. We can take bets but, as the article points out, only two vendors can do this and this is how they do it.
Re:US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification by ranger_danger on Friday April 17, 2026 @10:46PM (#47812727)
> Collecting the age will be done via a photo of a legal US state ID

Do you have a source for this claim?

Re:US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification by nirava on Saturday April 18, 2026 @03:16AM (#47813846)
At this point not assuming malice is probably naïveté, but I respect your optimism