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Krishi Chowdhary

What the App Store Accountability Act means for age verification

Finger about to touch Apple App Store icon on iPhone.

The App Store Accountability Act (ASAA) is a proposed law in the US that would put the onus of age verification on app store developers. It looks to shift the responsibility of age verification from the individual app and website level to the distributors, with Apple and Google being first in the line of fire.

Of course, the intent of this law is justified, but it has raised a lot of privacy concerns. This is because users have to hand over sensitive data to platforms like Apple and Google, which could be catastrophic if these companies were to suffer a data breach.

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