The Internet is Not a Can of Peas: The Problem With Texas’ App Store Age Verification Law

The report critiques Texas SB 2420, the App Store Accountability Act, arguing that mandatory age verification, parental-consent requirements, and statutory age-labeling create a privacy-invasive surveillance architecture ill-suited to dynamic, mixed-use apps; it warns the law will produce excessive data collection, ambiguous classification liability, potential First Amendment harms, and recommends targeted, data-minimizing safety measures focused on harmful conduct and design rather than universal identity verification.