The EFF has a blog post looking at a new bill in California that would exempt open-source operating systems from the Digital Age Assurance Act passed last year, but has problems of its own: While the open source exemption, if passed, would improve the law, the remaining amendments proposed by AB 1856 would require all web browsers and websites to request and collect users' ages. This is an expansion of last year's AB 1043's age-bracketing system that compounds its constitutional harms to users' speech, privacy, and security. [...] EFF understands this amendment to exempt open-source operating systems from the requirement to collect and transmit users' age-bracket data. That is a definite win for open-source developers. The bill is narrower now than it was before, and lawmakers clearly responded to concerns raised by EFF and the broader open-source community. Some important questions still remain—for example, it is unclear how the law would apply when an open-source operating system is
Source: https://lwn.net/Articles/1076377/
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Source: https://lwn.net/Articles/1076377/
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