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Systemd’s New Feature Brings Age Verification Option to Linux (itsfoss.com)

submitted 2 days ago by other_cat@piefed.zip to c/linux@programming.dev

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The optional birthDate field gives other projects a standardized data source for age verification compliance.

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[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Not sure if this is helpfull:

https://www.landesrecht-bw.de/bsbw/document/jlr-JMedienSchStVtrGBWV10StVtr-P3

§ 3 Begriffsbestimmungen

Im Sinne dieses Staatsvertrages sind

Anbieter eines Betriebssystems eine natürliche oder juristische Person, die Betriebssysteme bereitstellt,

A distributor of an operating system is a person or legal entity who provides operating systems.

It is extremely vague, it could be everyone from the creators of the distribution, to the person/company running the download mirror, down to the person who does the installation.

Without some court rulings to bring some guidelines and practical applications of the law there is the risk that everyone handling a non-compliant OS could be judged under the law if someone under 18 could get access to to OS or a System running it.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

That is indeed very vague