1. United States
2. N.C.
3. Letter

I'm writing to ask you to oppose any legislation that would mandate age verification at the operating system level. OS-level age verification would fundamentally compromise user privacy and security. Unlike website-specific verification, this approach would require constant monitoring of user activity across all applications and services. It creates a centralized point of failure that makes personal data vulnerable to breaches, government surveillance, and corporate tracking. We've already seen what happens when age verification companies fail to protect data: when Discord used Persona for UK age verification, Persona suffered a massive data breach that exposed sensitive user information. Parents already have tools to manage their children's device access without forcing every adult to prove their age to use their own computer or phone. This policy would also be trivially easy to circumvent while burdening legitimate users. Tech-savvy minors will find workarounds within days, while adults face friction every time they use their devices. Worse, it sets a dangerous precedent for government-mandated surveillance infrastructure built into the technology we use daily. Protect digital privacy and reject OS-level age verification mandates. These systems don't work as intended and create far more problems than they solve.