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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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[–] potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.space 19 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I checked again at the law and it seems it says operating systems directly.

The law and a review for the federated world made by another user that I'm not remembering. (It's in portuguese)

Edit:

CAPÍTULO IV

DOS MECANISMOS DE AFERIÇÃO DE IDADE

Art. 10. Os fornecedores de produtos ou serviços de tecnologia da informação direcionados a crianças e a adolescentes ou de acesso provável por eles deverão adotar mecanismos para proporcionar experiências adequadas à idade, nos termos deste Capítulo, respeitadas a autonomia progressiva e a diversidade de contextos socioeconômicos.

Only products or services that are directed at children or teenagers or with probable access to them should do age verification.

[...]

Art. 12. Os provedores de lojas de aplicações de internet e de sistemas operacionais de terminais deverão:

I – tomar medidas proporcionais, auditáveis e tecnicamente seguras para aferir a idade ou a faixa etária dos usuários, observados os princípios previstos no art. 6º da Lei nº 13.709, de 14 de agosto de 2018 (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais);

The App Store providers and terminal operating systems should:

Give proportional, auditable and tecnically secure ways to do age verification.

[–] potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.space 5 points 2 hours ago

I'm going to install templeos.

[–] morto@piefed.social 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

But what's a terminal operating system in this context?

[–] potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.space 6 points 2 hours ago

Who knows? Probably not even the legislators, but I'm already seeing every judge accepting this as everything that's on a computer, the smartphones being represented at the app store obligation.