California Assembly Bill 1043 Requires Operating Systems to Attest Age Bracket

New York now? This isn’t even enforceable?!?

Reclaim The Net – 6 Mar 26

New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level

The bill's child safety framing is doing a lot of work to normalize what is, in practice, a government-linked identity layer baked into every device you own before you open a single app.

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“New York could have stopped at asking users to enter a birth year. It could have adopted California’s self-declaration approach, which was already bad enough.

It chose to build something harder to circumvent and far more invasive, then handed rule-writing authority to an AG whose stated preference is biometric assessment and government documents. The child safety rationale is real. The surveillance infrastructure being constructed in its name extends well beyond any child.”