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I don’t see anything in that bill (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...) that requires age verification.

It says users, on account creation, must indicate their age or birth year (or both) and that programs must have access to that info, but I don’t see any requirement about checking whether what the user enters is correct.

What does make it weird is that it requires account holders to enter that data at account creation, and it defines an account holder as ”an individual who is at least 18 years of age or a parent or legal guardian of a user who is under 18 years of age in the state”

So, kids are allowed to create an account, but then, an account holder has to enter their age or birth year.

To top it of “a parent or legal guardian who is not associated with a user’s device” is not an account holder, so let’s say a 15-year old buys a laptop or smartphone and wants to set it up. There’s nobody associated with the device, so there are no account holders. Who should enter that age info?

On many smartphones, having a grown-up create an account first won’t work, as there’s no way to set up a second account.