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Solt Lake City (AP) – Utah State on Wednesday became the first state that moves legislation that requires application stores to check users' ages and obtain parents ’approval for minors to download applications on their devices.
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The bill went to the office of the ruler Spencer Cox, which runs Meta, which runs Facebook and Instagram, against App Store Giants Apple and Google about who should be responsible for verifying ages. Similar bills were presented in at least eight other states in the last online safety battle for children. Follow -up proposals targeting applications for legal battles on laws that require social media platforms to verify the ages of users.
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Meta and other social media companies support the status of applications on applications to verify ages amid criticism that they are not doing enough to make their products safe for children – or check their lack of use for children under 13 years of age.
“Parents want one of the store to fulfill one of their child’s life and give them permission to download applications in a way that preserves privacy.”
Application stores say that application developers are better equipped to deal with age verification and other safety measures. Apple said that the application of the application stores to confirm the ages will make it so that all users must deliver sensitive identification information, such as a driver's license, passport, credit card or social security number, even if they do not want to use a deprived application.
“Since many children in the United States do not have identifiers issued by the government, parents in the United States will have to provide more sensitive documents just to allow their children to access applications for children. The company said in its latest report on the latest online safety report:” This is not in the interest of user safety or privacy. “
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Apple is a privacy issue and allows users to determine whether it will be disclosed. The company gives parents the option to set the appropriate parameters for the application downloads. Google Play store does the same.
Apple and Google are among a group of technology companies that help support the progress room, a set of technical policies that have pressured lawmakers in Utah to reject the bill. Last year, Apple helped kill a similar invoice in Louisiana that required application stores to help impose restrictions on age.
Corrie Marshall, a spokesman for the progress room, described the scale as “a tremendous violation of individual privacy,” he said he was a heavy burden on applications to ensure online safety.
Republican Senator Todd Wheeler, a sponsor of the bill, argued that “much easier to target two applications more than 10,000 developers (App).”
Under the invoice, application stores will be asked to request age information when someone creates an account. If a minor tries to open one, the bill goes to the application store to connect it to his parents' account and may request a model of the identifier to confirm his identity. Wheeler said that a credit card can be used as a tool to check in most cases.
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If the child tries to download an application that allows purchase within the application or is asked to agree to the conditions and conditions, the father will first approve.
Melissa McCai, the mother of Utah, is among those who pushed legislation. She said that she had started to ask questions about the safety of the devices after her nephew in 2017 was “truly harmful content on another student in the school.” McCai said that the inaccurate ages of the wrong applications and parents' controls “on the root of harm online.”
Other eight countries that are considering proposals will similarly put the responsibility of the application stores to verify ages and search for parents' permissions. The Legislative Committee submitted the Alabama bill last week.
The lawsuits have been delayed implementing the laws of states that regulate social media applications and web sites. In 2024, a federal judge prevented Utah I law in Utah, which requires social media companies to verify the ages of all users and restrictions on accounts related to minors.
If Cox signs the law of Utah State in the law, most of the provisions will obtain May 7. Cox's support, a Republican, the currently offered state law that requires age verification on social media.
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The Associated Press Kim Chandler of Montgomery, Alabama.
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