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

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Well, do in userspace whatever you want to, but I strongly support the Debian
project in not doing anything related to that matter at all.

I might see the case for DebianEdu to offer some of the talked about
functionality, but only because it might benefit the actual users and
administrative folks for their use cases not because of some random legality.
Needless to say that I think of this being completely optional regarding system
installation and administration (I don't even wanna be bothered by being forced
to decide whether I want it or not).

Just my two IANAL cents.
Moritz

Also: I understand the thought, but running this thread on 3+ mailing lists
simultaneously is not the best idea....

On Sun, 2026-03-01 at 14:48 -0500, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
> 
> 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 currently
> looking into how to implement an API that will comply with the laws
> while also not being a privacy disaster. Given that other distributions
> are also investigating what to do with this, and the law requires us to
> make a "good faith effort to comply with [the] title, taking into
> consideration available technology", I figured it would be a good idea
> to bring the issue here.

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On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3@gmail.com> - 2026-03-01 20:50 +0100
  Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states "Vincent F. Heuser Jr." <vheuser@heuserlawoffice.com> - 2026-03-01 21:40 +0100
    Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3@gmail.com> - 2026-03-01 21:50 +0100
      Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states "Vincent F. Heuser Jr." <vheuser@heuserlawoffice.com> - 2026-03-01 22:50 +0100
      Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3@gmail.com> - 2026-03-01 23:20 +0100
      Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Jamie Null <lav@lavender.earth> - 2026-03-01 23:30 +0100
      Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states "Vincent F. Heuser Jr." <vheuser@heuserlawoffice.com> - 2026-04-06 21:20 +0200
  Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states David Edmundson <david@davidedmundson.co.uk> - 2026-03-01 21:50 +0100
    Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3@gmail.com> - 2026-03-01 22:00 +0100
  Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3@gmail.com> - 2026-03-01 22:30 +0100
  Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it> - 2026-03-01 22:30 +0100
    Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3@gmail.com> - 2026-03-01 22:50 +0100
  Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Stephan Verbücheln <verbuecheln@posteo.de> - 2026-03-02 08:10 +0100
    Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3@gmail.com> - 2026-03-04 01:40 +0100
  Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Henrik Ahlgren <pablo@seestieto.com> - 2026-03-02 08:20 +0100
  Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3@gmail.com> - 2026-03-04 01:50 +0100
  Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Moritz Schlarb <moschlar@debian.org> - 2026-03-04 09:10 +0100
    Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> - 2026-03-04 23:50 +0100
  Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3@gmail.com> - 2026-03-06 02:50 +0100
  Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3@gmail.com> - 2026-03-10 03:20 +0100
  Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com> - 2026-03-10 03:50 +0100
  Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Artur Manuel <amadaluzia@disroot.org> - 2026-03-10 04:40 +0100
  Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Jamie Null <lav@lavender.earth> - 2026-03-11 05:20 +0100
    Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org> - 2026-03-25 02:20 +0100
      Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3@gmail.com> - 2026-03-25 02:30 +0100
        Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> - 2026-03-25 11:30 +0100
      Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org> - 2026-03-25 13:10 +0100
        Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2026-03-25 14:00 +0100
        Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org> - 2026-03-25 14:00 +0100
        Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> - 2026-03-25 17:00 +0100
        Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Alexandru Mihail <alexandru.mihail2897@gmail.com> - 2026-03-25 20:50 +0100
          Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Rob BC <kardain@mailfence.com> - 2026-03-26 03:20 +0100
            Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> - 2026-03-26 04:00 +0100
  Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3@gmail.com> - 2026-03-17 00:40 +0100
  Re: On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal  compliance reasons in some U.S. states Toni Mueller <toni@debian.org> - 2026-04-06 17:50 +0200

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