A California bill that requires an operating system and app store provider to verify the user’s age before downloading the app has been cleared assembled 58-0 and will now continue to Governor Gavin Newsom, Report. The Digital Age Guarantee Act (AB 1043), introduced by the group Buffy Wicks, does not require photo identification for verification, but places responsibility on the platform to provide parents with tools to indicate the user’s age during device settings and use this information to turn the child toward moderately ageable content and screen time.
after and Both adopted App Store age verification laws earlier this year, which were criticized for posing potential privacy risks and faced opposition from Google and Apple. California bill has been received more positively by Big Tech, Google, Meta and others have launched Support it in a lead on Friday’s Senate vote. Kareem Ghanem, senior director of government affairs and public policy at Google, called the bill “one of the most thoughtful approaches we have seen so far in the challenge of keeping children safe, recognizing that this is a shared responsibility for the entire ecosystem.” politics.
