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

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

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

Tech giant Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, testified on an Ohio bill to require age verification to download from ...

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 will now require age verification for use of the iOS App Store, thanks to the state's App Store Accountability Act, ...

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

Texas is readying a bill to ban social media for minors. If enacted, the bill would make Texas the second U.S. state to ...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill into law that requires Apple and Google to verify the age of users before allowing ...

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 ...

North Dakota passed laws requiring age verification for pornographic websites and penalizing the nonconsensual creation and distribution of deepfakes. The laws, effective August 1st, aim to protect ...