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Update on age requirements for apps distributed in Texas

38 points by Austin_Conlon

by Edmond

6 subcomments

If the hammer ever comes down on this issue, ie hardcore requirement for age verification, there are ways to do this while protecting privacy.
We are experimenting with bootstraping a PKI certificate trust chain for facilitating trust projection and information verification online. Think of it as the ability to do things like age verification at scale via a peer-2-peer ish mechanism instead of sending your government id to a service provider.
One experiment is with PGP key holders (for now Keybase key holders) as CAs:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576590
And also .gov email holders:
https://blog.certisfy.com/2025/12/using-gov-email-addresses-...
It's all self-service and requires no sign-up or download of anything, the app (https://certisfy.com/app) is an in-browser app and all the cryptography happens in the browser.

by ghaff

1 subcomments

Meanwhile I actually started college at 16 which is illegal in some locales.

by runako

0 subcomment

(Not in Texas)
Did this apply to X (Twitter) at all?

by expedition32

3 subcomments

It is interesting to me that we are running a giant social experiment with people's childhoods- something we know can only be done once.
Meanwhile the silicon valley elite admitted that they don't let their 12 year old daughter on Instagram...

by John23832

1 subcomments

Just let the parents be responsible. Jesus.
Attach minor accounts to the account of the parent, make the parent say yes.