The Arizona state Senate was poised to jump on the age-verification bandwagon after a committee advanced House Bill 2991. Fortunately, as the legislative session winds to an end and the budget takes priority, an amended version of the bill appears to have stalled. Based in part on a controversial and legally uncertain law in Florida, the Arizona bill requires online platforms and mobile operating systems to verify the age of all users in an attempt to limit kids’ access to allegedly “harmful” online materials.

A student group and a trade association came to the Supreme Court on Monday afternoon on its interim docket, asking the justices to restore orders by a federal judge in Austin, Texas, that bar the state from enforcing a law that imposes age-verification and parental-consent requirements on minors’ access to apps and paid content within those apps. Half the states have similar age-verification requirements for minors.

Ingratitude is one of the chief faults of human nature and, consequently, one of the strongest of all the forces in politics. Too often, proposed intrusions into the market are predicated on nothing more than a great forgetting of what benefits the market provides, benefits that can be had only in an atmosphere of economic freedom. Would-be planners assume that tinkering with one aspect of an industry’s operations will not muck up the whole.

In December 2025, United States District Judge Robert Pitman stood against increased state surveillance and the trampling of personal rights, but the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has now blocked Pitman's temporary injunction.

At the end of last year, app developers and parents notched an important win when a federal district court in Texas issued an injunction against enforcement of the problematic App Store Accountability Act (ASAA).

Washington – The Computer & Communications Industry Association has asked the Supreme Court of the United States for an emergency ruling to block Texas from enforcing its age verification requirements on all app stores and app store users until a Constitutional challenge to Texas’ SB2420 is fully heard...

The government is expected to table the Digital Safety Act on Wednesday with reports that it will include a ban on social media for those under 16, framed as a “temporary” measure that platforms can exit once a new digital regulator certifies their safety standards...

Online age verification has been an issue for more than a decade—and one that has not yet found a perfect solution. As social media and AI come under increasing scrutiny for their impact on teens and children, age verification has become even more relevant.

This week, software makers are gathering in Cupertino for Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Especially interesting for parents and developers are the many updates to the parental control and kids’ safety features...