The bill, pushed as a way to protect children online, has drawn the attention of tech titans Apple, Google and Meta.

Moral panic laws have popped up across the United States in the 2025 legislative season. Recently, North Dakota joined the ...

The move puts the state at the center of a debate over whether and how to regulate smartphone use by children and teenagers.

1️⃣ Safety first: Texas is the latest state to pass a law requiring Google and Apple to verify app store users’ ages. It’s ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed a bill Tuesday requiring app stores, such as those run by Apple and Google, to verify user ...

The app is described as a temporary solution until the EU rolls out a Digital Identity Wallet with age-checking features next ...

A measure being considered by state lawmakers would require anyone in Louisiana to verify their age before downloading an app ...

By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -A bill that requires Apple and Alphabet's Google to verify the age of users of ...

A research report from Aztec examines the potential in zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) for privacy preserving online age ...

North Dakota passed laws requiring age verification for pornographic websites and penalizing the nonconsensual creation and ...

Gov. Greg Abbott signed the Texas App Store Accountability Act, which is set to take effect at the beginning of next year.

Katie Barlow chats with Dani Pinter, the director of the law center with the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, to discuss how a group is suing porn sites over age-verification law.