WASHINGTON—A new proposal before the U.S. Senate, now sporting bipartisan support, could invite a national digital assurance standard for age-gating minors under 18 years old. Cynthia Lummis and John Barrasso of Wyoming, the so-called Digital Age Assurance Act would establish a state- and federal-level compliance system that requires age verification at the level of a device's operating system. With this state legislation as a model for the federal Digital Age Assurance Act, it could be a compromise of interests looking to ensure free expression versus online safety. The Digital Age Assurance Act puts kids’ data privacy first as we make sure Congress and tech companies do their part to make online spaces safer for our kids." If adopted into law by both chambers of Congress and signed by President Donald Trump, the Digital Age Assurance Act would establish a device-level age assurance and verification system required to generate so-called "age brackets" that apps and websites would utilize to gather age compliance signals rather than collecting exact age information.