Utah's new App Store Accountability Act will force companies like Apple and Google to verify the ages of new App Store users ...

Utah today passed the App Store Accountability Act, a law that requires mobile app stores from Apple and Google to verify the ...

Utah Governor Spencer Cox has signed the App Store Accountability Act into law, making it the first state to require that app ...

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

Utah is the first state to require app providers to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent for app downloads by minors. The law, signed by Utah's governor, is effective May 7.

Utah has passed a bill, the App Store Accountability Act, which is geared towards protecting kids on the internet.  With the ...

Utah became the first state in the country to pass legislation requiring app store operators to verify users’ ages and require parental consent for minors to download apps.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told lawmakers in a Congressional hearing last January that it didn’t make sense for his platforms to verify how old their users are in order to serve them age-appropriate ...

FILE - Apple's App Store icon is displayed on an iPad in Baltimore, March 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah on Wednesday became the first state to pass legislation ...

The company has released a set of reforms it headlined “Helping Protect Kids Online,” and its strategy of “shock and awe” seems to be working. As word of these updates tears through state capitals ...

Google is pushing back on a bill that would make Utah the first state in the US to have a law requiring app stores to conduct age verification of their users ...

But in the US, states such as Utah and South Carolina are debating laws that would require app store operators such as Apple and Alphabet’s Google to check the ages of users. That has set up a ...