Google and Apple will soon be required to verify app store users’ ages in Texas, after Gov. Greg Abbott signed the rule into law on Tuesday.

Apple has announced that its App Store has stopped over $9 billion in likely scam transactions in the past five years. In ...

The state’s governor signed a new law that will give parents more control over the apps that minors download, part of a raft ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed a bill Tuesday requiring app stores, such as those run by Apple and Google, to verify user ...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott today signed into law the App Store Accountability Act, which will require Apple and Google to ...

Utah today passed the App Store Accountability Act ... That's not in the interest of user safety or privacy. Apple believes that requiring invasive data like driver's licenses, passport numbers ...

Apple on Tuesday disclosed that the company has prevented more than $9 billion in fraudulent transactions over the past five ...

Texas Senate Bill 2420 would require app stores to verify ages and get parental consent for users under 18 to download apps ...

If passed, the legislation, called the App Store Accountability Act, could mark the first major federal online safety legislation in years and would significantly change how users engage with app ...

The App Store has stopped more than $9 billion in fraud in a five-year period, Apple declares, flexing its security muscles at a time when App Store transactions themselves are under attack.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has urged Texas Governor to veto online child safety bill, citing privacy concerns over mandatory age ...

This method would also protect users’ privacy, Meta global head of safety Antigone Davis wrote in 2023, because “by verifying a teen’s age on the app store, individual apps would not be ...