Congress Wants to Track Every Device You Own
The Digital Age Assurance Act and similar age verification bills threaten First Amendment rights by compelling open-source developers to embed surveillance mechanisms into their code, effectively turning them into regulasummaryThe Digital Age Assurance Act requires OS providers to build mechanisms for users to indicate age, which leads to overcompliance where companies collect extensive data (IDs, facial scans) to avoid liability, as seen in ttakeawayOpen-source software like Linux is fundamentally incompatible with age verification mandates because there is no central company to hold liable; forcing thousands of volunteer developers to rewrite code with surveillancetakeaway














