US lawmakers push for age verification at the operating system level
Encryption backdoors, social media bans for children, creepy age verification for applications - what will they think of next? The latest brilliant idea by US lawmakers sure is a hell of a doozy: legally mandated age verification in every single operating system.
Colorado's SB26-051, introduced
https://www.osnews.com/story/144501/us-lawmakers-push-for-age-verification-at-the-operating-system-level/
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