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Policymakers around the world are advancing age assurance proposals to protect children and teens online.
Key facts
In Colorado, SB 26‑051 recently had a committee hearing on April 23, 2026, as part of ongoing legislative consideration
France’s current Social Media Minimum Age proposal, for example, includes the same exclusions for open source code collaboration sites and online encyclopedias that appear in the EU Copyright
The EU Cyber Resilience Act, for example, was refined through an iterative process to get the balance right for open source — This is a selection of operating system and app store age assurance legislation in the United States
Summary
The harms these laws aim to address are serious and deserve attention. “Age assurance” refers to a range of approaches used to determine or estimate a user’s age. It is sometimes used interchangeably with “age verification,” which typically refers to higher-confidence methods like photo ID matching or checks against financial or identity systems. A poorly designed age assurance law could have significant unintended impacts for open source projects. Another potential pitfall is placing age assurance requirements on “publishers” of operating systems, regardless of whether they are individuals or companies.