Meta, Spotify lobby to pass the buck on age verification to Apple and Google

AppleInsider
Apr 30, 2025, 12:07 pm265 pts
Fearing regulation and the need for costly new systems verifying the age of users, Meta and Spotify are among a group lobbying Washington to have Apple and Google deal with it for them. App Store icon In March 2025, Utah became the first state to require Apple and others to add age verification. That legal…

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