Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level
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Rather than having people verify their age on every app they use, Colorado's SB26-051 would implement a way for devices to share an 'age-bracket' signal to third-party apps.

Senator Matt Ball and Representative Amy Paschal presented this bill, Age Attestation on Computing Devices (SB26-051), to the Colorado Senate, where it was assigned to the Business, Labor, and Technology Committee.

California has also made a similar push for such a bill. We really need technology experts talking to these politicians to explain how dangerous bills like these are and actually focus on the real issues of the cost of living, affordable, and healthcare. This is why people think Democrats are controlled opposition.

  • exaybachae@startrek.website
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    11 hours ago

    It’d actually be cool if I could verify age with one service and receive an anonymous auth token and create a pin or password, then just use those everywhere to verify age.

    Or put it in my password manager and auto fill the BS on request.

    All without sharing any private or identifying info with the service.

    Currently I either just don’t use web services that require age verification, or I use a VPN to bypass them.