Age verification service providers handle highly sensitive information, but there are some important differences about how ...

Ohio lawmakers did pass a bill to require age verification in social media apps, but a federal judge struck that law down after social media companies challenged it, calling it a “breathtakingly ...

Meta in April teamed up with Spotify Technology SA and Match Group Inc. to launch a coalition aimed at taking on Apple and Google, including over the issue of age verification.

Meta, X, and Snap Inc. signed a letter urging the South Dakota Senate Judiciary Committee to sign a bill placing new age verification restrictions on apps.

The outcome so far is an assortment of online services handling sensitive user information — a “privacy nightmare,” says Cody ...

Business Meta hosts Screen Smart event highlighting age-verification reforms Industry experts talk to Nashville parents about social media safety Julianne Akers Jun 12, 2025 Photo: Julianne Akers ...

Industry group NetChoice, which counts both Meta and Google among its members, successfully blocked not only a previous version of Utah’s online age verification law from taking effect but also ...

Meta is part of a new lobbying group, The Coalition for Competitive Mobile Experience, which launched in Washington last week with age verification on the app store as one of its main policy goals.