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An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/linux@programming.dev
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Apparently this will include Linux...

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[โ€“] FishFace@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I can actually imagine this being pretty useful on phones so you can give a kid a phone but prevent it from installing certain software (from normal sources)

[โ€“] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

You can already require a pin to download anything off the store.