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Jeffrey Yasskin
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I work on # WebStandards for Chrome, and I'm organizing Google with the # AlphabetWorkersUnion . I'm an appointed member of the # W3CTAG . I miss programming, but now I mostly talk to people. # Urbanist , pedestrian, # YIMBY . White, but trying to check my privilege. Opinions here are not anyone's but mine.
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Jeffrey Yasskin
@jyasskin@hachyderm.io
I work on # WebStandards for Chrome, and I'm organizing Google with the # AlphabetWorkersUnion . I'm an appointed member of the # W3CTAG . I miss programming, but now I mostly talk to people. # Urbanist , pedestrian, # YIMBY . White, but trying to check my privilege. Opinions here are not anyone's but mine.
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Mar 03, 2026
@npdoty @ireneista Reading https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043 I'm worried about 3 things:
1) '"Account holder” means an individual who is at least 18 years of age.', and the OS has to ask "the" account holder, but there's nothing about how the OS figures out its administrator's age. Presumably it'll be ok to assume that the person setting up a device bought the device, and only 18yos can buy things, even though that's strictly false?
2) The law talks about "the" user, so what about devices with multiple users? (probably minor?)
3) The law assumes that the OS will give apps a granular version of the single age specified for the user. But a good parental control app ought to let parents say "my kid is Xyo for this particular app". Is that allowed?
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