Google opposes Meta's age verification plan via app stores, highlighting potential privacy risks and ineffectiveness for protecting children. The company argues that this approach neglects various ...

Meta is prompting Quest 2 and 3 users to reenter their birthdays so that it can place accounts in the appropriate age experience as it tries to centralize age verification through its Quest store.

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) -- A representative for the company that owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp supports South Dakota requiring app stores to verify users' ages.

The company also argued the legislation was a way for Meta to shirk its responsibility to kids’ safety and would not make any meaningful changes to teens’ experiences on social media.

Meta and other social media companies support putting the onus on app stores to verify ages amid criticism that they don't do enough to make their products safe for children — or verify that no ...

Meta is sparring with Apple and Google over who is responsible as child-safety advocates push for tech companies to check the ages of users and get parental consent before allowing downloads.

(The Center Square) — From failed carbon tax proposals to sweeping tort reform, Louisiana lawmakers took up a flurry of high-stakes legislation this week, revealing sharp divisions over industry ...

A pair of Republican lawmakers are set to propose a new law that would require app stores to verify the ages of all users and share that information with app developers, following a similar state ...

Meta, Snap Inc. and X also claim that requiring an age check in one secure location limits the number of times and places a user has to share personal information, such as an ID or credit card ...

All Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest 3 users will have to verify their age in their Meta Account 30 days after being prompted. The company says its doing this to help developers better understand the ...