New Utah law makes app stores responsible for age verification

META, X and Snap, Apple and Google’s app stores a new Utah law that will require users to check users and get the consent of parents for minors.

Tech giants struggled to determine which party would be responsible for age check in App Stores. Companies such as meta, apps themselves have the age of users, because these institutions are hosting and distributing applications. The application maintains, however, the product of companies that develop applications should be liable as they offer users to end.

Not swallow Given the state only Some such legislation around age inspection; It is the first to apply such a law. This App Store Calculation Law, As called the new law, it was adopted by the Utah’s legislative body in the beginning of this month, then the Government’s COX’s table for the government, to make it a signature to make it official.

Apple has announced an announcement of the law A new set of child safety initiatives for the App StoreIncluding the age verification system for applications. Its implementation will allow app developers to use the new announced age range API to access the age range provided by the parent. This information does not provide an app developer with a small age or birthday, but allows you to provide customization according to the age range, which is presented in application experiences.

The Apple’s system requires more than the application store that inspects the age during the downloads of applications, the app requires the age range before being used.

Not surprisingly, social media companies excite new Utah law will require app stores to check users’ ages before downloading applications.

META, X and Snap in a joint statement, praised the movement of the swallow:

Governor Cox and Utah urge their parents and users to oversee the teen app and otherwise to think that other states approach this groundbreaking approach. Parents want to monitor and confirm many applications that a shop of a window, teenagers want to download and confirm and Utah managed to centralize it in the App Store in the App Store. This approach uses users to repeatedly submit personal information to countless individual applications and online services. We are eager to protect their parents and teenagers, and we expect this model to receive more states.

In general, 16 US states, including California and Texas, they presented their versions of the app store to the security of age inspections and youth.