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   a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) (rakslice@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Mar-2026 06:28:07 JST a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)

   LB: fwiw i think what people are worried about is the currently proposed california ab 1043, but the bill they've got is an ill conceived ill fitting house of cards that is probably not going to go anywhere other than being quietly withdrawn after sufficient ridicule

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

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     a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) (rakslice@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Mar-2026 06:28:05 JST a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)

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     The bill keeps using language like:

     'An operating system provider shall do all of the following:
     [...]
     (3) Send only the minimum amount of information necessary to comply with this title and shall not share the digital signal information with a third party for a purpose not required by this title."

     There is no purpose of the information stated anywhere in the bill

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     a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) (rakslice@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Mar-2026 06:28:05 JST a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)

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     And how does an API some party is required to provide know the purpose the information it provides is going to be used for?

     etc.

     I just stopped reading

     this thing is a basic editing fail

     I wouldn't have even commented about it if it wasn't for the open source community around here starting to fret about it

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     a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) (rakslice@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Mar-2026 06:28:06 JST a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)

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     In practice whatever age verification that implies is the only potential actual verification here, but that is not otherwise described; the age of the actual user, which is required to be given at "account setup" and which the age bucket flags reported are based on, is not required to be otherwise verified

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     a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) (rakslice@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Mar-2026 06:28:06 JST a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)

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     If somebody implemented this with even the age of the "account holder" self-reported, it's unclear to me if that would be non-compliant in some way

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     a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) (rakslice@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Mar-2026 06:28:06 JST a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)

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     The age bucket of the user has to be available to any "covered application store" used, which is defined in a way that includes any random internet website you download software from

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     a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) (rakslice@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Mar-2026 06:28:07 JST a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)

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     The bill presupposes that there is an "account holder" who is over 18, but the implication from the term that the account holder holds an account is not referenced in the definition or otherwise described.