Utah hands over the invoice in which App Stores is required to limit the downloads of the minors from 03.06.2025

On Wednesday, Utah was the country's first state to adopt an invoice, after which Google, Apple and other app distributors verify the age groups of the users and minors under the age of 18 would block from downloading apps without parental permission.

The App Store Accountability Act (SB 142), which was adopted by the State House 64-3 and the Senate of 21-1, is now a signature for governor Spencer Cox.

The state legislator is moved 16 months after the META platforms have proposed that app stores in general in the invoice defines as public websites or services that enable people to download apps from developers from third-party providers to receive the permission of parents before receiving minor apps.

“The parents should approved the app downloads of their teenagers, and we support the federal legislation in which App Stores has to receive the consent of the parents if their teenagers under 16 years of age in download apps,” wrote Antigone Davis of Meta, Global Safety Head, in November 2023.

Since then, laws that require the consent of the parents for app downloads have been introduced in the US house and Senate as well as in Utah and several other countries, as well as in several other states.

The group chamber of progress was opposed to the draft law in Utah and argued that the requirement of app stores to check the age groups of users would affect their privacy.

“The estimate of the age of a user requires collecting more data and acts through the minimization … efforts,” said Kouri Marshall by The Chamber of Progress to the legislators Utah.

Kerry Maeve Sheehan, the group of the group's group, argued in a separate blog post that the measure would violate the first change by compulsion to “open up to minors and adults” between the sacrifice of their privacy by opening sensitive personal information (their own or, in the case of the parents of the user, their children)) access. “.

She added that courts all over the country have found that minors generally have a right to adjust for speech.

Utah recently passed a separate law, the minor protection in social media act, after which platforms would have restricted the ability of a minor under 18 years to send direct messages or to share information to users in the moll's network. This law would also have obliged platforms to deactivate push notifications and automatically play content on minors.

A federal judge blocked the enforcement of this law last year and decided that he probably violated the first change. Utah recently asked the 10th circulation's appellate court to raise the block.