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  • Yep. Its honestly mild as hell.

    Essentially legislation that says:

    • app stores have to have age categories to silo children, teens, and adults.
    • OSes have to have a field to collect this data from users when they set up their login, so it can be sent to app stores via API.

    Its just a standardized system that should have been done ages ago, but was not a priority for standards orgs, so none stepped up - so legislation appeared.

    I strongly argue that it should only apply to commercial OSes and app stores though - as they’re the ones that primarily cause issues these laws intent to address.

    Linux and FOSS have been caught in the crossfire in a privacy and personal data battle they were not involved in.