This new "privacy" law will require that all operating system providers must start collecting your birth date every app you install will need to ask your OS provider for that information. It's whac...
I’m not sure if that law will pass/has passed, but I wonder how it affects embed systems, vending machines, etc, since all of them have OS in them. For Linux this can already be implemented by using groups for age so they can claim the OS already offers this and be done, then it’s up to the apps to query it and most apps wouldn’t need to so that’s that.
Language is something you can teach, but it isn’t really something that’s easily controlled.
The term “OS” already means something like ‘a space that lets you interact with and manage apps and services on a personal computing device’ for most people. This is the case because of how its used with Apple, Google, Windows, Steam, Meta, etc…
So the literal operating systems of other kinds of equipment, such as a vending machine, might eventually end up with its own moniker if the distinction becomes important enough to matter.
I’m not sure if that law will pass/has passed, but I wonder how it affects embed systems, vending machines, etc, since all of them have OS in them. For Linux this can already be implemented by using groups for age so they can claim the OS already offers this and be done, then it’s up to the apps to query it and most apps wouldn’t need to so that’s that.
It has already passed the legislature and been signed into law, but not become operative yet, won’t until 2027-01-01.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043
Does each VM need to be verified, or the hypervisor? What about docker? Does memtest need to ask for age verification?
Yup, it’s very clear there wasn’t a single person who understands about OSs in any of the proceedings for this law.
Language is something you can teach, but it isn’t really something that’s easily controlled. The term “OS” already means something like ‘a space that lets you interact with and manage apps and services on a personal computing device’ for most people. This is the case because of how its used with Apple, Google, Windows, Steam, Meta, etc…
So the literal operating systems of other kinds of equipment, such as a vending machine, might eventually end up with its own moniker if the distinction becomes important enough to matter.