1. United States
2. Texas
3. Letter

I'm asking you to oppose H.R. 8250, the Parents Decide Act. This bill would require every person in America to prove their age before turning on a computer, phone, or tablet. That's not a child safety measure. That's a national ID system run by Apple and Google. Section 2(a)(1) mandates age verification for every user, with no opt-out for adults. The bill covers laptops, desktops, gaming consoles, smart TVs, and car systems under its definition of "operating system." Once my device knows my verified age, it can restrict what I read, watch, or say based on that data. The First Amendment has always protected the right to access information without showing ID first. The bill delegates all data protection rules to the FTC within 180 days, with no retention limits, no restrictions on secondary use, and no prohibition on linking age data to other identifiers. Congress would be authorizing a surveillance system whose safeguards don't exist yet. Effective parental controls already ship with iOS and Android. Parents can use Family Sharing and Google Family Link right now. We don't need to force 300 million Americans to hand over their birth dates to access their own devices. Vote no on H.R. 8250.