> (3) (A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), a developer shall treat a signal received pursuant to this title as the primary indicator of a user’s age range for purposes of determining the user’s age.
> (B) If a developer has internal clear and convincing information that a user’s age is different than the age indicated by a signal received pursuant to this title, the developer shall use that information as the primary indicator of the user’s age.
Developers are still liable if they have reason to believe someone is underage, even if the age signal says otherwise.
The only way to truly minimize that liability is forcing users to scan their faces and IDs, that is why age verification systems are already implemented that way.
Thanks for actually reading the law for me! Yeah, that's pretty bad. I'm totally on board for requiring a common interface for platforms to indicate and check for self-reported age, but legally requiring operating systems to doubt and override user settings is unambiguously anti-user and authoritarian.
I think it’s meant for the case where a child is using an adult’s user account but maybe their own account within that
eg: you let your child use your laptop for a bit to play Roblox. The child logs into the Roblox account which has their real age. As per the law Roblox is required to use their inner age signal instead of the OS provided one.
I suppose it could also go the opposite way: if your steam account is 18 years old by itself then probably we can treat you like a grown up and ignore the OS provided signal.
I guess the latter form would be quite rare for anyone to implement.
> (3) (A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), a developer shall treat a signal received pursuant to this title as the primary indicator of a user’s age range for purposes of determining the user’s age.
> (B) If a developer has internal clear and convincing information that a user’s age is different than the age indicated by a signal received pursuant to this title, the developer shall use that information as the primary indicator of the user’s age.
Developers are still liable if they have reason to believe someone is underage, even if the age signal says otherwise.
The only way to truly minimize that liability is forcing users to scan their faces and IDs, that is why age verification systems are already implemented that way.