Governor Utah Spencer Cox signed The Law on the Accounting of App Store in the Law, which makes it the first state that requires the manufacturers of the App Store to check the age of their users. Under this lawPeople in Utah will have to be older than 18 years to create a new account in the application store; Minors will need to either bind their account with parents so that the adult can give the child permission to use certain applications.
A legislation Designed to protect children and adolescents, according to the sponsor of the bill Todd Veiler, the Senator -Republican state. Nevertheless, this also raised questions about confidentiality and where the burden of responsibility occurs so that minor users do not see inappropriate content. Meta, Snap and X supported the measure. “We welcome the Governor of Cox and Utah for the fact that they were the first in the country to enable parents and users more control over the uploading of adolescents and urge other states to consider this innovative approach,” three companies said in Joint application Wednesday. “This approach will pay users from repeatedly sending personal information to countless individual applications and online services.”
Google, which is managing the Play store, opposed the bill and called on the governor On the veto measure. Now we turned to Apple and Google to comment when the bill was signed to the law.
Currently, the APP Store accounting law should enter into force on May 7, but it seems likely that it will encounter legal problems. Groups of digital confidentiality opposed the law and others like him, noting Safety problems About how sensitive data on checking age will be used or protected. Other state laws requiring online services to confirm the age of users also caused trials.