[Chicago-talk] Illinois considering passing a law to require age verification with smartphones, and Linux

[Mike Fragassi]

The bills as created in California require age verification to install
Linux, and the Illinois laws would be similar.
Some additional links:

https://lwn.net/Articles/1062112/

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/a-new-california-law-says-all-operating-systems-including-linux-need-to-have-some-form-of-age-verification-at-account-setup/



On Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 10:23 AM James E Keenan <jkeenan at pobox.com> wrote:

> On 3/26/26 11:17, Mike Fragassi wrote:
>
> The Subject line of this email ends with "and Linux" ... but I didn't
> see anything in the body about Linux.  Can you clarify?  Thanks.
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