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Here's the bill straight from congress.gov: https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr8250/BILLS-119hr8250ih.pdf https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr8250/BILLS-119

by js2 6mo ago

Here's the bill straight from congress.gov: https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr8250/BILLS-119hr8250ih.pdf https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr8250/BILLS-119hr8250ih.... https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250/text https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250... It's short and in plain language. The article is longer than the bill. Here's the totality of the requirements: (a) REQUIREMENTS.—An operating system provider, with respect to any operating system of such provider, shall carry out the following: (1) Require any user of the operating system to provide the date of birth of the user in order to— (A) set up an account on the operating system; and (B) use the operating system. (2) If the relevant user of the operating system is under 18 years of age, require a parent or legal guardian of the user to verify the date of birth of the user. (3) Develop a system to allow an app developer to access any information as is necessary, collected by the operating system to carry out this section and any regulation promulgated under this section, to verify the date of birth of a user of an app of the app developer. --- This part from REGULATIONS is also nominally important: (B) Data protection standards related to how an operating system provider shall ensure date of birth collected by the operating system provider from a user, or the parent or legal guardian of the user, to carry out this section and any regulation promulgated under this secion— (i) is collected in a secure manner to maintain the privacy of the user or the arent or legal guardian of the user; and (ii) is not stolen or breached. ---

bloppe 6mo ago
I find it somewhat easier to read here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250/text https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250... I appreciate the brevity of the bill, but it delegates a lot of discretion to the FTC to regulate things like "How an operating system provider can verify the date of birth of a parent or legal guardian", so it's up to the discretion of someone in the executive branch as to whether GNU and/or Linux will have to scan your driver's license and upload that scan to some government contractor's servers, say.

by js2 6mo ago

bloppe 6mo ago

I find it somewhat easier to read here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250/text https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250... I appreciate the brevity of the bill, but it delegates a lot of discretion to the FTC to regulate things like "How an operating system provider can verify the date of birth of a parent or legal guardian", so it's up to the discretion of someone in the executive branch as to whether GNU and/or Linux will have to scan your driver's license and upload that scan to some government contractor's servers, say.