California's Digital Age Assurance Act, and FOSS
5 points by runxiyu
5 points by runxiyu
What are the consequences of an operating system or other covered entity not complying? Do I, an open source developer who lives in the US but not California, have to worry about this?
1798.503.
(a) A person that violates this title shall be subject to an injunction and liable for a civil penalty of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per affected child for each negligent violation or not more than seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) per affected child for each intentional violation, which shall be assessed and recovered only in a civil action brought in the name of the people of the State of California by the Attorney General.
(b) An operating system provider or a covered application store that makes a good faith effort to comply with this title, taking into consideration available technology and any reasonable technical limitations or outages, shall not be liable for an erroneous signal indicating a user’s age range or any conduct by a developer that receives a signal indicating a user’s age range.
I am unclear about enforcement across state jurisdictions, unfortunately. (I don't even presently live in the US.)