1. United States
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Vote no on the App Store Accountability Act. This bill doesn't protect children — it creates a national ID-check infrastructure for the internet while delivering nothing more than cosmetic changes to default settings. Any effective age verification requires government ID or biometric data. That's not a hypothetical — a third-party age verification vendor for Discord in the UK suffered a breach exposing identification information of over 70,000 users. The Tea App left ID documents exposed on the open web. Collecting this data at scale doesn't make kids safer; it creates honeypots for hackers. A federal judge already blocked Texas Senate Bill 2420, a model for this legislation, on First Amendment grounds, comparing it to requiring every bookstore to card customers at the door. Expect the same litigation here. If Congress wants to protect children online, there are better paths — like voluntary frameworks where parents send age signals to app stores without mandating mass ID collection. The App Store Accountability Act trades real privacy and civil liberties risks for the appearance of action. Don't pass it.