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2025-05-27

Texas enacts age-verification law for app stores

Texas is the latest state to adopt an age-verification law for app stores. Despite lobbying from big tech, reportedly including a personal call from Apple CEO Tim Cook, Governor Greg Abbott has signed a Discover Copy

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2025-04-01

Arkansas social media age verification law blocked by federal Judge

An Arkansas law requiring social media companies to verify the ages of their users has been struck down by a federal judge who ruled that it was unconstitutional. The decision is a significant victory [...]

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2025-03-12

Google asks Utah’s governor to veto the state's app store age verification bill

Google is pushing back on a bill that would make Utah the first state in the US to have a law requiring app stores to conduct age verification of their users. The company has formally requested the st [...]

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2025-03-06

Utah is poised to pass an age verification law for app stores

Utah has once again passed a bill that attempts to place new limits on children’s ability to access social media and other apps. The state legislature passed a bill that requires app store makers to [...]

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2025-03-26

Utah just became the first state in the country to pass an age verification law for app stores

Utah Governor Spencer Cox has signed the App Store Accountability Act into law, making it the first state to require that app store makers verify their users' ages. Under this law, people in Utah [...]

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2025-05-25

Texas is getting ready to ban social media for anyone under 18

Texas could become the next US state to lay down the law with social media platforms. A Texas bill that would ban social media use for anyone under 18 recently moved past the Senate committee and is d [...]

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2025-04-12

How to use the Apple Passwords app

Apple’s new Passwords app (introduced with iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia) is a big leap forward in making password management simple and user-friendly for Apple users, even if it's not a [...]

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2025-03-21

SpaceX could soon have more control over Texas public road and beach closures

SpaceX could soon have greater control over the recreational activities of South Texas residents. The Houston Chronicle (via Gizmodo) and San Antonio Express-News report that a pair of state senate bi [...]

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2025-01-16

UK demands adult content sites introduce 'effective' age verification methods

The UK has spent over a decade attempting to regulate who can access adult content online and has failed, again and again. But things might just change, as OfCom, the country's government-approve [...]

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2025-01-16

Everyone suddenly has cold feet about banning TikTok

With a TikTok ban seemingly imminent, TikTok users have spent the last few days fleeing to Chinese social media app “RedNote,” trying to learn Mandarin, and bidding heartfelt farewells to their [...]

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