1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

Oppose HB8250 to Protect Privacy Rights Vote no on HB8250, the Parents Decide Act. This bill would force every operating system user in America to hand over their date of birth just to use their phone or computer, creating massive databases of personal information that will become prime targets for hackers and identity thieves. The bill violates basic privacy rights by requiring all adults to prove their age before accessing constitutionally protected content on their own devices. This is government overreach that treats every American like a suspect. The data collection requirements are a privacy nightmare waiting to happen, and when these centralized databases get breached, millions of families will have their personal information exposed. HB8250 won't even work. Tech-savvy kids will lie about their ages, use foreign operating systems, or find other workarounds. Meanwhile, law-abiding families lose their privacy for a system that determined minors will easily bypass. The bill imposes billions in compliance costs on operating system providers with no analysis of whether this approach actually protects children better than existing parental control tools that don't require mass surveillance. Parents can already control what their kids access without forcing every American into a government-mandated age verification system. Reject this invasive, ineffective legislation.