Meta called for a law requiring app stores to obtain parental consent before teens download any apps. This would put more responsibility on parents, as well as Google and Apple, to protect young users from potentially harmful apps.
“Parents must approve teen app downloads, and we support federal legislation that requires app stores to obtain parental consent when teens under 16 download apps,” said Antigone Davis, Meta’s global safety officer. The company is proposing a plan where app stores would notify parents when their teen wants to download an app, just as they would be alerted when a child wants to make an in-app purchase. “The guardian will then approve or deny the request.”
Meta says its approach will allow parents to verify a teen’s age when setting up the phone, rather than requiring everyone to verify their age multiple times across different apps. The company says the legislation is necessary to ensure that all apps used by young people are subject to the same standards.
He notes that states have passed “a bunch of different laws,” some requiring teens to get parental consent for various apps and others requiring age verification. The company has begun taking several privacy and security-related steps recently, and this will continue.
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