The outcome so far is an assortment of online services handling sensitive user information — a “privacy nightmare,” says Cody ...

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

Ohio lawmakers did pass a bill to require age verification in social media apps, but a federal judge struck that law down after social media companies challenged it, calling it a “breathtakingly ...

Texas, Louisiana and Utah — have passed laws this year compelling app marketplaces to check the ages of everyone when they ...

Business Meta hosts Screen Smart event highlighting age-verification reforms Industry experts talk to Nashville parents about social media safety Julianne Akers Jun 12, 2025 Photo: Julianne Akers ...

Opinion On June 10, social network Bluesky announced that in 15 days it would introduce age verification for UK users, to ...

Meta is part of a new lobbying group, The Coalition for Competitive Mobile Experience, which launched in Washington last week with age verification on the app store as one of its main policy goals.

And in the process, they’re letting Zuckerberg and Meta off the hook by providing this false sense of security that no amount of age verification at an app store level can really solve.” Ghanem warned ...

The general problem of how to ensure app integrity without relying on the dominant OS providers has cropped up elsewhere.