The New Utah Law is the 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:

“Parents wanted to encourage many applications and other states that the parents and Utah wants to load the tires of tires and other countries in Utah.

In general, in the 16 US states, including California and Texas, ages in the US state and presented their own versions of the app store.