Texas governor signs new law requiring Apple and Google to verify all app store users’ ages | CNN Business
www.cnn.comGoogle and Apple will soon be required to verify app store users’ ages in Texas, after Gov. Greg Abbott signed the rule into law on Tuesday.
Chalk another one up for Big Brother. I wonder if this will apply to/be enforced on FDroid and Obtainium?
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Right, so basically they’ll have a database of who has (had) what app, when, and where…
Which could include apps like Grindr (way to target the LGBT community), or like Signal (way to target Journalists, activists, and other privacy minded people). You can find out a lot about someone’s app choices and in a state like Texas, which is conservative and authoritarian, that can be used to go after certain demographics.
Texas is actually a swing state with more blue than red but gerrymandered to win
Yeah, but the thing is that gerrymandering still has resulted in a really authoritarian republican lead state.
Yup and that’s why double gerrymandering will be way worse if it succeeds
Wait until they get that Grindr list and see all their buddies on it.
hold on, lemmie get a video…
https://youtu.be/ApuKFG8SUx4
Who is “they”? Google/Apple? Yes. But that’s not really anything new. Texas? I don’t think so.
Texas regularly proposes and passes regressive and authoritarian laws all the time. How do you think they will enforce them?
The text of the new Texas law is here.
copying my comment from another thread:
(Not to say that this isn’t still immediately super harmful for the majority of the people who get their apps from Google and Apple…)
Thank you for researching that
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owning them libs
The “please tread on me harder” state.
Obtainium no because it’s a github parser and I highly doubt they’ll implement it on the downloader.
F-Droid and other non-free anpp stores sure.
Accrescent may have to leave Texas, with all that privacy/security jaff.
That works until Google will lock down the APK installer for “unverified” apps