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A systemd fork has set out as a fu*k you to age verification.
Liberated systemd is a fork of mainline systemd started by Jeffrey Seathrún Sardina, a machine learning/AI researcher who apparently had enough of where things were heading. The project is straightforward about its purpose; strip out what it considers surveillance-enabling code, keep everything else intact, and stay in sync with upstream as it develops.
https://itsfoss.com/news/systemd-fork-strips-out-age-verification/
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#AgeVerification #SystemD
Liberated systemd is a fork of mainline systemd started by Jeffrey Seathrún Sardina, a machine learning/AI researcher who apparently had enough of where things were heading. The project is straightforward about its purpose; strip out what it considers surveillance-enabling code, keep everything else intact, and stay in sync with upstream as it develops.
https://itsfoss.com/news/systemd-fork-strips-out-age-verification/
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#AgeVerification #SystemD
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Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support
The project removes the birthDate field systemd added last week in response to age verification laws.
Apple Forces UK iPhone Age Checks in iOS 26.4 | Reclaim the Net
With iOS 26.4, #Apple has turned every iPhone in the UK into an identity checkpoint. The update, released March 24, requires all UK users to confirm they’re 18 or older before accessing certain features and services on their Apple Account.
UK communications regulator Ofcom called it “a real win for children and families.”
The infrastructure being built is more of a problem than that framing suggests.
Apple has, without warning, placed a gatekeeper on the devices of 35 million UK users who paid good money for full-featured smartphones and now find themselves holding something closer to a supervised children’s tablet.
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#UK #BigBrother #EvilApple #AgeVerification
With iOS 26.4, #Apple has turned every iPhone in the UK into an identity checkpoint. The update, released March 24, requires all UK users to confirm they’re 18 or older before accessing certain features and services on their Apple Account.
UK communications regulator Ofcom called it “a real win for children and families.”
The infrastructure being built is more of a problem than that framing suggests.
Apple has, without warning, placed a gatekeeper on the devices of 35 million UK users who paid good money for full-featured smartphones and now find themselves holding something closer to a supervised children’s tablet.
@reclaimthenet
#UK #BigBrother #EvilApple #AgeVerification
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438 Experts Warn: Age Verification May Not Work | Tech, Privacy News Explained
More than 400 security and privacy experts have issued a formal warning about age verification systems.
Importantly, they are not arguing against protecting children online — but raising concerns about whether current systems actually work as intended, how they scale, and what risks they introduce.
The warning comes as governments in the UK, US, and Europe continue rolling out age verification and age assurance requirements under new regulations.
In this video, we look at:
• Who these experts are
• What they actually said
• The technical challenges behind age verification
• Why concerns about privacy, security, and effectiveness are being raised
• And why these systems are being introduced anyway
https://csa-scientist-open-letter.org/ageverif-Feb2026
#BigBrother #AgeVerification
More than 400 security and privacy experts have issued a formal warning about age verification systems.
Importantly, they are not arguing against protecting children online — but raising concerns about whether current systems actually work as intended, how they scale, and what risks they introduce.
The warning comes as governments in the UK, US, and Europe continue rolling out age verification and age assurance requirements under new regulations.
In this video, we look at:
• Who these experts are
• What they actually said
• The technical challenges behind age verification
• Why concerns about privacy, security, and effectiveness are being raised
• And why these systems are being introduced anyway
https://csa-scientist-open-letter.org/ageverif-Feb2026
#BigBrother #AgeVerification
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🇪🇺 It took only two minutes to break the EU’s age verification app
Here's how:
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Here's how:
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California Tried Age-Checking Linux — Then Rewrote the Bill | Tech Privacy, News Explained
California’s age-verification law was already controversial because it pushed age checks down into the operating system layer — not just websites, not just apps, but the device itself.
Now California is moving to change that.
AB 1856 proposes an open-source exemption to the state’s Digital Age Assurance Act, meaning many #Linux distributions may no longer be treated as “operating system providers” required to build age-check machinery into account setup.
That could mean no forced age prompt, no California age-signal API, and no need for many open-source operating systems to redesign their user systems around age categories.
But this is not a repeal.
The wider age-verification system remains. Commercial platforms like Windows, macOS, iOS and Android may still be covered, and the amended California wording also brings browsers and website operators more clearly into the age-signal chain...
#AgeVerification
California’s age-verification law was already controversial because it pushed age checks down into the operating system layer — not just websites, not just apps, but the device itself.
Now California is moving to change that.
AB 1856 proposes an open-source exemption to the state’s Digital Age Assurance Act, meaning many #Linux distributions may no longer be treated as “operating system providers” required to build age-check machinery into account setup.
That could mean no forced age prompt, no California age-signal API, and no need for many open-source operating systems to redesign their user systems around age categories.
But this is not a repeal.
The wider age-verification system remains. Commercial platforms like Windows, macOS, iOS and Android may still be covered, and the amended California wording also brings browsers and website operators more clearly into the age-signal chain...
#AgeVerification
The House Just Voted for KOSA, a Privacy and Free Speech Disaster | Reclaim The Net
.. .That is the First Amendment problem dressed as a child-safety provision. Verifying age means verifying identity, and identity checks sit between a person and ordinary protected activity, whether that is reading, watching, posting, or speaking. Adult websites would face explicit age-verification requirements under the package, which functionally means every visitor proves who they are before viewing lawful content. Anonymous and pseudonymous speech, the kind the Supreme Court has shielded for decades, gets harder to find the more platforms lean on identity to limit their liability.
The bill tightens how data brokers handle children’s information and updates the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act to widen its reach...
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#Kosa #US #BigBrother #AgeVerification
.. .That is the First Amendment problem dressed as a child-safety provision. Verifying age means verifying identity, and identity checks sit between a person and ordinary protected activity, whether that is reading, watching, posting, or speaking. Adult websites would face explicit age-verification requirements under the package, which functionally means every visitor proves who they are before viewing lawful content. Anonymous and pseudonymous speech, the kind the Supreme Court has shielded for decades, gets harder to find the more platforms lean on identity to limit their liability.
The bill tightens how data brokers handle children’s information and updates the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act to widen its reach...
@reclaimthenet
#Kosa #US #BigBrother #AgeVerification
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Age Verification Is Inescapable: The Truth About 'Alternatives' | Tech,Privacy News - Explained
When Discord demanded facial scans, searches for alternatives jumped 10,000% overnight. People fled to Matrix, Mastodon, and Bluesky. Then Matrix implemented age verification.
This video looks at two parallel escape routes — decentralised messaging and alternative social media — and asks whether they're still open. From the Discord exodus to the EU's new cross-platform identity infrastructure launching this month, the pattern is consistent:
the exits close the moment they become visible.
• Matrix, Element & Revolt — what the messaging alternatives actually offer
• The Fediverse — Mastodon
• when Matrix became the go-to Discord alternative
• How GDPR already reached individual #Mastodon instance admins
• The #EU's centralised #AgeVerification app (July 2026) — what it really is
• Why the #OnlineSafetyAct and #DSA extend jurisdiction beyond borders
• Whether any identity-free infrastructure can survive at scale
When Discord demanded facial scans, searches for alternatives jumped 10,000% overnight. People fled to Matrix, Mastodon, and Bluesky. Then Matrix implemented age verification.
This video looks at two parallel escape routes — decentralised messaging and alternative social media — and asks whether they're still open. From the Discord exodus to the EU's new cross-platform identity infrastructure launching this month, the pattern is consistent:
the exits close the moment they become visible.
• Matrix, Element & Revolt — what the messaging alternatives actually offer
• The Fediverse — Mastodon
• when Matrix became the go-to Discord alternative
• How GDPR already reached individual #Mastodon instance admins
• The #EU's centralised #AgeVerification app (July 2026) — what it really is
• Why the #OnlineSafetyAct and #DSA extend jurisdiction beyond borders
• Whether any identity-free infrastructure can survive at scale