1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

AB 1043 was signed into law on October 13, 2025, and I need you to work to repeal or block its implementation before the January 1, 2027 effective date. This bill creates a mandatory age surveillance system that forces every Californian to hand over their birth date to operating system providers just to use their own devices. The bill requires operating system providers to collect birth dates at account setup and share age bracket data with app developers through APIs. This isn't child protection. It's normalized mass data collection that puts sensitive personal information about millions of people into corporate databases that will inevitably be breached, sold, or misused. We've seen this pattern before with every "just for safety" data collection scheme. California already has the Age-Appropriate Design Code Act requiring businesses to protect children online. AB 1043 doesn't add meaningful protections. It just builds infrastructure for tracking every user's age across their digital life. The anticompetitive protections in the bill are meaningless when the entire system is designed to centralize age data with the biggest tech companies. Fight to repeal this law or prevent its enforcement. Californians deserve privacy, not mandatory registration to use software.