by Cindy Harper,Reclaim The Net:
The bill’s child safety framing is doing a lot of work to normalize what is, in practice, a government-linked identity layer baked into every device you own before you open a single app.
New York just proposed the most invasive state-level age verification bill the US has seen. Senate Bill S08102 would extend age verification requirements down to the device itself: internet-connected devices, operating system providers, and app stores would all be required to implement what the bill calls “age assurance” before users can access their own hardware and software ecosystems.
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This is more than a social media platform asking for your birthdate. It’s your phone, your laptop, your operating system demanding proof of who you are before letting you use them normally.
The bill defines “age assurance” as “any method that can reasonably determine the age category of a user, using methods that reasonably prevent against circumvention.”
That deliberately broad language hands significant power to New York Attorney General Letitia James, whose office will write the specific compliance rules under Section 1545.
The methods she’s already floated for the existing SAFE for Kids Act give a clear picture of where this is heading: biometric assessment and government-issued ID verification.
James published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the SAFE for Kids Act on September 15, 2025, opened public comments through December 1, 2025, and now has until December 1, 2026, to finalize the rules.
Source: SGT Report
