WSJ: Tim Cook calls the Texas governor under the age of the age of the App Store

Tim Cook personally participates in an attempt to stop the law on children's security in Texas. Last week, Tim Cook personally called Governor Texas Greg Ebbott to either correct or impose a veto on a bill, which, if he becomes law, requires Apple and Google to collect age data for each user who wants to download the application. In fact, this can mean broad changes not only in how the App Store works, but also for each building of the developer on top of this. If Texas moves forward, others will probably follow. Utah has already passed the version, while Louisiana has repeatedly put forward such attempts. In addition to everything, federal legislation is also in work. You have already guessed. Confidentiality.

As the representative of Apple WSJ said:

if you are put into action, the application market will be required to collect and maintain sensitive identification for everyone who wants to load the applications if it will provide that it will provide that it will provide that it will ensure that it will ensure that it will ensure that it will ensure that it will ensure that it will ensure that it will ensure that it will ensure that it will ensure that it will ensure that it will ensure that it will ensure that it will provide it He will be detained within the framework of atmospheric applications. estimates.

Apple argues that the age check should occur at the level of applications where the content is actually sensitive to age, and not at the market level.

the best comment by Rodney Williams

love 8 people . Control, especially if children under 16 years old. Children under 16 years of age should not use smartphones anyway. The risk of too much includes personal information flowing for personality fraud, cybercrime, etc. As soon as the government takes part, it will be a headache. Instead of collecting dates of birth or state identifiers at the application level, the company unfolds functions such as a simplified setting of accounting accounts of subsidiaries, API, which allows parents to share only the age range of their child with developers, and more strict content control associated with the screening time. Currently, he has six registered lobbyists working in Texas compared to Seven Google and Meta 13. Nevertheless, at a time when an impulse for the laws on testing age seems to be growing, and the luck of Apple seems to observe the best days, this will certainly become a more frequent step.