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Texas is the 3rd state to require app store age verification (www.cnn.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by artyom@piefed.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Chalk another one up for Big Brother. I wonder if this will apply to/be enforced on FDroid and Obtainium?

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[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Right, so basically they'll have a database of who has (had) what app, when, and where...

Which could include apps like Grindr (way to target the LGBT community), or like Signal (way to target Journalists, activists, and other privacy minded people). You can find out a lot about someone's app choices and in a state like Texas, which is conservative and authoritarian, that can be used to go after certain demographics.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Who is "they"? Google/Apple? Yes. But that's not really anything new. Texas? I don't think so.

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Texas? I don’t think so

Texas regularly proposes and passes regressive and authoritarian laws all the time. How do you think they will enforce them?

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

I don't understand what that has to do with this conversation

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait until they get that Grindr list and see all their buddies on it.

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

hold on, lemmie get a video...

https://youtu.be/ApuKFG8SUx4

[–] Batmorous@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Texas is actually a swing state with more blue than red but gerrymandered to win

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, but the thing is that gerrymandering still has resulted in a really authoritarian republican lead state.

[–] Batmorous@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Yup and that's why double gerrymandering will be way worse if it succeeds