This new "privacy" law will require that all operating system providers must start collecting your birth date every app you install will need to ask your OS provider for that information. It's whac...
The US bills I have read also don’t enforce any real age (how could they). They require the birthday to be stored on the device for the device to reply with the info if the user is within a certain age bracket. But nowhere did I see anything that would force users to store their truthful birthday. All that it would do is making the already existing age checks much more convenient and giving parents the opportunity to make them slightly more secure.
still a foot on the door. if we assume the real goal is to identify every internet user, a mandatory os-level system for storing a a bit of personal data is definitely step number one.
once they have the data and the internet adopts this, requiring transmission or broadening the scope bit by bit is just a few updates away.
The US bills I have read also don’t enforce any real age (how could they). They require the birthday to be stored on the device for the device to reply with the info if the user is within a certain age bracket. But nowhere did I see anything that would force users to store their truthful birthday. All that it would do is making the already existing age checks much more convenient and giving parents the opportunity to make them slightly more secure.
still a foot on the door. if we assume the real goal is to identify every internet user, a mandatory os-level system for storing a a bit of personal data is definitely step number one.
once they have the data and the internet adopts this, requiring transmission or broadening the scope bit by bit is just a few updates away.