On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states

On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states Aaron Rainbolt arraybolt3 at gmail.com Sun Mar 1 19:48:00 UTC 2026 Next message (by thread): On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Given that this is related to legal stuff, I should preface this by saying I am not a lawyer. Recently, a new law was passed in California that requires OS vendors to provide some limited info about a user's age via an API that application distribution websites and application stores can use. [1] Colorado seems to be working on a similar law. [2] The law will go into effect January 1, 2027, it is no longer a draft. I do quite a bit of work with an OS vendor (working with the Kicksecure [3] and Whonix [4] projects), and we aren't particularly interested in blocking everyone in California and Colorado from using our OSes, so we're

On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states Aaron Rainbolt arraybolt3 at gmail.com Sun Mar 1 19:48:00 UTC 2026 Next message (by thread): On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Given that this is related to legal stuff, I should preface this by saying I am not a lawyer. Recently, a new law was passed in California that requires OS vendors to provide some limited info about a user's age via an API that applicatio