A tech industry trade association filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Utah Attorney General and Division of Consumer ...

The Alabama Senate passed a bill Thursday that would require app stores to have age verification for minors. HB 161, ...

A state bill strengthening age verification for app stores is getting pushback from a coalition of app developers. The big ...

Is Snap solving the problem of age verification, or passing it on? The full picture is more complicated than it seems.

Josh Withrow, Fellow, Tech & Innovation Policy, R Street Institute In OPPOSITION to Senate Bill 237, “App Store Accountability Act; civil penalties, civil action” February 4, 2026 Senate Committee on ...

Josh Withrow, Fellow, Tech & Innovation Policy, R Street Institute In OPPOSITION to House Bill 1658, the “An Act relative to parental consent and age verification for digital application platforms.” ...

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 ...

Utah lawmakers are looking to further regulate how kids interact with the internet and social media as a bill that would require app stores to verify the age of their customers passed the Senate on ...

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 ...

Snapchat has now joined the efforts of Meta in advocating for age-verification at an app store level, as “an additional safeguard”.