California's Age Verification Law May End Up Exempting Most Linux Distributions

California's Age Verification Law May End Up Exempting Most Linux Distributions

While not as good as repealing AB 1043 outright for requiring operating system providers to ask for a user's age or birth date at device setup, open-source Linux distributions and other open-source OSes may end up seeing some reprieve before this law goes into effect at the start of 2027.