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If you don’t want your info (whether you are an adult a teen or a child) to be shared with “owners of apps that are on the Epstein list”, then don’t install those apps. There is nothing in this law requiring you to download any particular app.

Linux, as well as any decent system of security, operates via varying levels of trust. If I install a game on Steam, that does not get root access with permission to rewrite my kernel. Similarly, if I have banking info on my device, it doesn't get to view that, or anything with my face or name. You can install and even run something without trusting it with your life.

If an app were sending this data to a third party, like palantir, then they would be in direct violation of this law.

We have seen time and time again that courts do not provide adequate protections for these types of data breaches. The law does not matter. At the most, software companies get slapped on the wrist, but more likely they get away with it, as "programming is hard, and it's easier to just send everything". It is far, far easier to assert that a malicious app is not submitting marketing, or "fuckability" information on your child if that device does not denote itself as a child's device in the first place. That's only possible if the law isn't hammering the OS into openly exposing its own user data to anyone that asks for it.

Your last point about personal responsibility is an important one. It's why, if you happen to be using an old insecure device running Windows XP, you can toy around on the web with it, but you should disconnect it from your personal network, and should not enter personal info on it. Any device software that is forced to keep an open "Would_President_47_Seek_To_Rape_This_User" flag, available to every application, is removing that option for personal responsibility.