Greven
506 posts
Colorado Democrats have introduced new legislation which would require Operating Systems (such as Linux or Windows) to perform age verification at the system level. “Age Attestation on Computing Devices” (SB26-051) would: - Apply to all Operating Systems, Open Source or proprietary (Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, etc.). - Require the OS to set a user’s age upon account creation, and store that within the system. - Require the OS to provide an API for application developers to request an age (or “age bracket”) for the user. - Institute a $7,500 fine for “intentional violation” of the bill (which would include refusing to implement the age verification and API). This version of the bill does not indicate how the age of the user would be verified (outside of a good faith declaration of age). That language is currently vague and open to wide interpretation. leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-051
Another day, another team with a week-long IT issue that gets escalated to Security because nobody else can figure out what is happening – including the vendor so they maybe blame us. Then we have to prove it's not, by fixing it for them. 😭 The joys of a Generalist career track.
We still out here
