alt Hacker Newsgood to know that `grep` will have to check how old i tell my os i am before it will do anything
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Which seems like a silly accidental overreach of the law. If that is the way it applies.
The literal reading of the law says this only required when a child is the primary user of the device.
> (b) (1) A developer shall request a signal with respect to a particular user from an operating system provider or a covered application store when the application is downloaded and launched.
but 'user' here is:
> (i) “User” means a child that is the primary user of the device.
So these rules should only apply to accounts/devices where a child is the primary user.
Grep on an adult's machine would not need to check how old you are, at least with a literal reading of the law.
This reminds me of an org I used to work at where they had CrowdStrike installed on every work laptop.
I once used curl to download a shell script from GitHub and it caused a defcon 1 event where security reached out to me asking why I downloaded it.