Meta’s push for Texas’s new age-verification law—requiring app stores to verify users’ ages and obtain parental consent for minors—appears, at first, to be about child safety. In reality, it’s a strategic move to shift legal risk. While marketed as a way to ease compliance for smaller developers, the law [...]
This video by David Dunmoyer regarding Texas HB 4901 contains statements that are demonstrably false and significantly mislead the public about the legislation's impact on app developers, particularly small businesses. Betsy Furler, from Houston, Texas and head of App Association member company For All Abilities–a person with decades of [...]
At CES 2025, an insightful panel featuring Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioners Rebecca Slaughter and Melissa Holyoak, along with former FTC Commissioners Christine Wilson and Julie Brill, tackled the evolving regulatory landscape for artificial intelligence (AI). They examined the FTC’s role in AI oversight, particularly through the unfair and [...]
Part One of ACT | The App Association’s Two-Part Series: The ABCs and 1-2-3s of Age Verification and Compliance Lawmakers across the United States are introducing a wave of age verification and parental consent laws aimed at protecting kids online. While well-intentioned, these state-by-state approaches create a confusing and [...]