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

Google opposes Meta's age verification plan via app stores, highlighting potential privacy risks and ineffectiveness for protecting children. The company argues that this approach neglects various ...

The company uses age-verification methods to check the ages of its users, but O’Connor said there’s an increased need for public policy to strengthen the verification methods.

A federal judge in 2024 temporarily blocked Utah's first-in-the-nation law requiring social media companies to check the ages of all users and place restrictions on accounts belonging to minors.

Meta, Snap Inc. and X also claim that requiring an age check in one secure location limits the number of times and places a user has to share personal information, such as an ID or credit card ...

Utah Sen. Mike Lee praised his state for passing legislation requiring age verification for app stores like Google and Apple, the first state in the country to do so.

A federal judge in 2024 temporarily blocked Utah's first-in-the-nation law requiring social media companies to check the ages of all users and place restrictions on accounts belonging to minors.

Meta Platforms Inc. is headed for another clash with the European Union after a €200 million ($232 million) fine failed to bring Facebook and Instagram into compliance with a tough new digital law.

But Meta, Snap, and X have praised the law, which Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed on Wednesday. The App Store Accountability Act, also known as S.B. 142, is set to take effect on May 7 — but is ...

The biggest tech companies are warring over who’s responsible for children’s safety online, with billions of dollars in fines on the line as states rapidly pass conflicting laws requiring companies to ...