The age verification process, which aims to prevent kids from accessing pornography, inappropriate content, or social media, has become standard practice across the internet. However, there are still significant flaws in the current methods used to verify users' age, including age inference and third-party services prioritizing user privacy. These methods come with significant tradeoffs, such as having app stores and operating systems perform age checks before users can download apps. On-device verification, while being more private than sending information to a server for analysis, may pose a security issue as older phones may not be powerful enough to run the AI models used to analyze a user’s face. Privacy experts are working to develop a new method that limits data collection and limits personal data collection. It is unclear whether these laws apply to Linux repositories, like APT or Pacmanman.