Apple is upgrading its app safety offerings later this year, including new age assurance policies intended to wade into the online child protection debate. According to a recently published white ...

Gov. Spencer Cox (R) has signed the App Store Accountability Act, a law that will put the onus on app store operators like ...

Utah has become the first state to pass legislation requiring app stores to verify users’ ages and get parental consent for ...

Utah’s signing of the law is a political win for Meta, which has been aiming to put more political and regulatory pressure on Apple.

Google is pushing back against other major technology companies’ efforts to put the responsibility of age verification on the app stores, arguing the onus is on both the stores and developers to ...

The app's updated supervision feature lets parents of teen users view their children's followers and the accounts they follow in return, as well as any accounts their teen has blocked. Later this year ...

S.B. 142 puts the onus on app stores to conduct age assurance and represents a significant shift in how user ages are ...

Pushing back against app store age verification, Google says that Meta and other online platforms are trying to offload their own responsibilities of keeping children safe online. Google’s ...