Starting in January, three state app store age verification laws will take effect: Texas’ App Store Accountability Act (effective Jan. 1), Utah’s App Store Accountability Act (effective May 7) and ...

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 ...

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 ...

TEXAS (CN) — A Texas student group and two Texas students sued their state on Thursday to block an upcoming law that would require age verification to download any ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah on Wednesday became the first state to pass legislation requiring app stores to verify users' ages and get parental consent for minors to ...

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 ...

US state Utah has passed a law requiring app stores to verify a user’s age and obtain parental consent before minors can download apps. As reported by The Verge ...

An East Texas lawmaker is defending a law that was set to require age verification for apps on devices used by minors.

A groundbreaking law in Utah is poised to shake up how minors access apps. Earlier this month, Utah’s state legislature passed S.B. 142 (App Store Accountability Act), which requires major app store ...

The feature mirrors similar checks added to YouTube and precedes new US digital age laws. Users can verify their age with an ID, selfie, credit card, or third-party services like Verifymy.io. New ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...