Rep. Kat Cammack (R‑Florida) has some explaining to do in her district following the release of her “App Store Freedom Act.”

Cammack and her fellow supporters want you to believe their congressional phone lines are ringing off the hook with constituents begging to have the Google Play Store or Apple’s App Store removed from their devices — even if it means putting their security and personal data at risk.

Think about your own smartphone experience and ask yourself: Does what Cammack is selling make any sense? Or is it more plausible a coalition of privileged app developers is using the government to muscle their way into your phone — without paying for that which allowed them to exist in the first place?

If you haven’t personally felt the urge to call Congress and demand they delete your app store, you already know the answer.

Cammack and special interest groups like the so-called “Coalition for App Fairness” are trying to force smartphone manufacturers to make their competitors’ software available on devices without any terms or restrictions.

Applied to the physical world, this is akin to a gas station being forced to sell a competitor’s gasoline without making any profit on the sale, while also being denied any compensation for the cost of building and maintaining the storage tanks and pumps.

It’s no surprise, then, that the ‘Coalition for App Fairness,’ is made up of app developers including Epic Games, which has long argued, in essence, it should be afforded access to digital shelf space, as well as all accompanying, underlying intellectual property, for free (or at minimum, at a level dictated by them.)

What’s particularly egregious about the not-so epic game they are playing is just how much these developers have benefited from incumbent app stores. In addition to creating the market that allowed apps to exist, these platforms have invested tens of billions of dollars into high-speed, secure, digital ecosystems.

That requires constant upkeep to defend against ever-growing threats; last year alone, the Apple App Store blocked nearly 2 million risky submissions and saved the economy billions in fraud.

Proponents claim this legislation would lower consumer costs because they know it’s the only way to win public support, but there is absolutely nothing in the bill stipulating cost savings will be passed on to you.

Research by The Analysis Group found when similar legislation was enacted in Europe, developers kept prices the same — or even increased them — on 91% of their products.

As hard as it might be to believe, these groups aren’t lobbying because they have your wallet in mind.

Not your privacy.

Cammack and her allies are effectively ordering a digital jailbreak where the same apps previously blocked for security reasons would be allowed back onto your device.

Under this bill, children could also circumvent the parental safeguards maintained by leading app stores simply by downloading an alternate. For the bill’s proponents, any security risk to the customer is a price well worth paying, so long as it pads Epic Games’ profits.

We’ve seen this strategy before with the legislation known as AICOA — an acronym I dubbed the “Allow Insecure Code On Applications” Act. Given the identical problems contained in this bill, we should rightfully refer to Cammack’s ASFA as the “Aiding Scammers and Fraudsters Act.”

If your member of Congress supports this, pick up the phone and ask them a simple question: “Which of your constituents actually asked you to do this?”

JON DECKER | Cagle Syndicate

Jon Decker is executive director of American Commitment and a senior fellow at the Parkview Institute. As one of America’s leading “supply-side community organizers,” he launched the Committee to Unleash Prosperity in 2015 on behalf of Steve Forbes, Larry Kudlow, Arthur Laffer, and Stephen Moore and served as its executive director for eight years.

Decker’s writing and research have been featured in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, DailyMailUK, and the New York Post. His work is also featured regularly on national television and radio programs. He is a graduate of Roger Williams University with over a decade of experience in various public policy