Meta, X, and Snap Inc. signed a letter urging the South Dakota Senate Judiciary Committee to sign a bill placing new age verification restrictions on apps.

Age verification laws are still a legal gray zone in the U.S., but they’re starting to take shape. As of now, 18 states have passed legislation requiring pornography sites to verify users’ ages.

One of these shared priorities is the protection of minors. As a result, Meta is urging lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic to implement an age verification system directly at the app store level.

Meta has joined forces with Spotify, Garmin, Match, and others to form a lobby group to represent their interests, especially as they come into conflict with those of Apple and Google. The group ...

The biggest tech companies are warring over who’s responsible for children’s safety online, with billions of dollars in fines ...

News Meta, Spotify lobby to pass the buck on age verification to Apple and Google William Gallagher 5 Wed Apr 30 2025, 12:07 PM EDT · 2 minute read ...

Websites and social media companies such as Instagram parent company Meta have argued that age verification should be done by the companies that run app stores, such as Apple and Google, and not ...

Though standard practice is to verify a user’s age based on whether they have a credit card, Ghanem said HB570 does not make it clear what would constitute sufficient compliance with the law.

The UK's Online Safety Act comes into force today, marking a shift in internet culture that is being felt around the world.

Ohio lawmakers did pass a bill to require age verification in social media apps, but a federal judge struck that law down after social media companies challenged it, calling it a “breathtakingly ...

“If states are to go forward with these burdensome laws, age verification tools must be accurate and limit collection, sharing, and retention of personal information, particularly sensitive ...