The Louisiana House of Representatives unanimously approved legislation that would require app stores like Google Play and Apple’s App Store to verify a user’s ...

Have you ever tried to download an application from the Apple App Store just to be greeted by the Verification Required prompt? Whether you are new to the Apple world and you're using an iPhone for ...

Age verification is coming to app stores in Texas, meaning that users could soon be required to provide some form of identification in order to download anything from ...

Texas has just taken a significant and commendable step towards a safer digital world for its children. Gov. Greg Abbott's signing of the app store age verification bill isn't just another piece of ...

A pair of Republican lawmakers are pushing Congress to take up a bill that would require app stores to verify the ages of its users. They want app stores to share the information with developers in a ...

Before the launch of the Meta Youth Safety event in Brussels this Tuesday, Antigone Davis, Meta’s VP and Head of Global ...

Utah lawmakers are looking to further regulate how kids interact with the internet and social media as a bill that would require app stores to verify the age of their customers passed the Senate on ...

As a queer, brown teenager growing up in a conservative part of Texas, Sarah Philips, a campaigner for Fight for the Future, said the internet served as a place to find community. “Most people I know ...

As teens spend increasing time on digital devices and social media, parents and lawmakers debate how best to protect them through regulations focusing on screen time limits and data collection ...

Utah today passed the App Store Accountability Act, a law that requires mobile app stores from Apple and Google to verify the age of users rather than having individual apps do age verification.

That dance—sue, block, appeal, repeat—is already playing out over a new Texas law designed to impose age restrictions on app downloads. The showdown between Texas and Big Tech feels tailor-made to ...