Wayne Thornton created an issue: 
https://gitlab.rtems.org/rtems/rtos/rtems/-/issues/5502



## Summary
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California Law AB-1043 (Digital Age Assurance Act) comes into effect January 
1st, 2027 for new operating systems, and July 1st, 2027 for existing operating 
systems. This law applies to any operating system or company which seeks to be 
used in California. It should be noted that Colorado is implementing a similar 
law that has yet to be signed by the governor. 

It seeks to require all operating system vendors, including Linux, FreeBSD, 
macOS, Windows, etc. to implement an age-verification methodology with an age 
declaration flow and signal API that can be accessed by developers running 
third-party applications on the operating system. The fine for not complying is 
$7,500.00 per incident/user not verified.

While it can be construed that this law applies to general-purpose operating 
systems only, due to the flexibility of RTEMS to run everywhere from spacecraft 
to consumer smart devices where applications can be developed by third-party 
companies and distributed to run on RTEMS, does it make any sense whatsoever to 
begin thinking about how to implement a very basic skeleton API just for 
compliance? 

## Steps to reproduce
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