GrapheneOS Refuses to Comply with Age-Verification Laws (tomshardware.com)
- Reference: 0181079738
- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/03/23/0116256/grapheneos-refuses-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws
- Source link: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/grapheneos-refuses-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws
> GrapheneOS, the privacy-focused Android fork, said in a [2]post on X on Friday that it will not comply with emerging laws requiring operating systems to collect user age data at setup. "GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account," the project stated. "If GrapheneOS devices can't be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it."
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> The statement came after Brazil's Digital ECA (Law 15.211) took effect on March 17, imposing fines of up to R$50 million (roughly $9.5 million) per violation on operating system providers that fail to implement age verification...
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> Motorola and GrapheneOS announced a long-term partnership at MWC on March 2, to bring to bring the hardened OS to future Motorola hardware, ending GrapheneOS's long-standing exclusivity to Google Pixel devices. A GrapheneOS-powered Motorola phone is expected in 2027. If Motorola sells devices with GrapheneOS pre-installed, those devices would need to comply with local regulations in every market where they ship, or Motorola may need to restrict sales geographically.
Or, "People can buy the devices without GrapheneOS and install it themselves in any region where that's an issue," according to [3]a post on the GrapheneOS BlueSky account . "Motorola devices with GrapheneOS preinstalled is something we want but it doesn't have to happen right away and doesn't need to happen everywhere for the partnership to be highly successful. Pixels are sold in 33 countries which doesn't include many countries outside North America and Europe."
Tom's Hardware [4]also notes that GrapheneOS "isn't the first and won't be the last company to outright refuse compliance with incoming age verification laws."
"The developers of open-source calculator firmware DB48X issued a legal notice recently, stating that their software 'does not, cannot and will not implement age verification,' while MidnightBSD updated its license to ban users in Brazil."
[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/grapheneos-refuses-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws
[2] https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/2034957604682621229
[3] https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116274717492190037
[4] https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/grapheneos-refuses-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws
WTF Laws (Score:4, Insightful)
These laws make essentially zero sense. Unenforceable. Pain in the ass. Circumventable. Just insane.
Re: (Score:2)
This entire post is sarcasm, right?
.... RIGHT?
How does Brazil plan on fining linux distros? (Score:2)
Especially the ones created by teams scattered around the world and have zero commercial or legal presence in Brazil?
More stupid laws made by technologically pig ignorant politicians.
Re: (Score:2)
> technologically pig ignorant politicians
Much redundancy in these words, there is.
Good (Score:2)
Finally a rational response to this nonsense.
pointless (Score:1)
This so called "privacy OS" still only works on phones made by Google, one of the biggest privacy-invading companies. So 1. Good luck avoiding any potential backdoor, 2. At the very least, you're still funding the very company you're trying to avoid
and in some remote cavern, with batteries about to (Score:2)
In some remote cavern, the OS spits out these error messages, after the age was mistyped
Why are you not with husband yet?
Why ban Brazil? (Score:2)
If someone downloads it from Afghanistan and Taliban outlaws it, who cares? Why care about Brazil? Maybe just write, which juristiction does apply to the project, and ignore every other stupid law out there.