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Governor Newsom signs bills to further strengthen California’s leadership in protecting children online (www.gov.ca.gov)

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AB-1043 "Age verification signals: software applications and online services."

Text https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

Other info https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

California AB 1043 signed. Mandatory os-level, device-level, app store, and even developer-required age verification for all computing devices.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Worked at a software dev that was so niche we basically had a monopoly by default. No one is touching that software outside the workplace. Laughing thinking about tomorrow's meetings.

"Seriously? We have to add age verification?!"