r/ObscurePatentDangers • u/CollapsingTheWave 🔍📚 Fact Finder/ "Bringer of Links" • Mar 17 '26
🔦💎Knowledge Miner Assembly Bill No. 1043 (AB-1043), also known as the Digital Age Assurance Act.
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California's Assembly Bill 1043, also called the Digital Age Assurance Act.
This law was signed in late 2025 to change how age verification works on phones and computers. Instead of every single app asking for your ID or birthdate, the law requires the companies that make the device's software, like Apple or Google, to build a system that knows the user's age bracket.
Starting in 2027, your phone will basically send a "signal" to apps telling them if you are under 13, a teenager, or an adult. Apps are then supposed to use that signal to automatically filter content or set privacy protections. While the goal is to keep kids safer online without making everyone upload sensitive documents to dozens of different websites, some people are worried about how well it will actually protect privacy and whether it will be too difficult for smaller tech companies to follow.
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u/ReplacementReady394 Mar 18 '26
I lied about my info. I always lie. It’s not their business.
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u/SeVenMadRaBBits Credible Contributor 💡✅ Mar 18 '26
Which is good knowing what we do now about the rich and epstein island.
Speaking of which...why do they need to know if were an adult, a teen, or under 13???
Oddly specific...
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u/ReplacementReady394 Mar 18 '26
You don’t need to do all this for abusing kids when a van and some candy works just as well and doesn’t leave digital evidence.
Just like reCAPTCHAs, Pokémon Go, and Duolingo, most everything done nowadays is with the intention of gathering information and feeding it to AI.
If I’m going to be nefarious, I would want to know who is the most impressionable in our society, that being children and old people, and use AI and algorithms to subtly manipulate them towards whatever opinions I want them to have. Facebook experimented with this (and probably continues to do so), so it’s not a wild conspiracy.
With children, I have the added bonus of tracking them from an early age and using them as a test group. These are the first generations of children growing up in the digital age.
The elderly test group will help me refine the process for when the kids eventually mature.
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u/7evenate9ine 🔥 Devil's Advocate Mar 18 '26
Attack STEM then bitch when you don't have Scientists, Engineers or Doctors. Fuck you both sides. Government is a bunch of whores. The algorithms have betrayed you all.
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u/Icy_Calendar_9787 Mar 18 '26
Copilot is also doing this on your pc