Sources: Apple and Google pitch state bills with self-attested age checks and no private lawsuits; Meta backs ones making app stores, not platforms, verify ages
THE SO WHAT
Platform liability for kids’ experiences is being pushed upstream to app stores and watered down with self-attestation and no private right of action—this is a bid to standardize a light-touch compliance regime before stricter models spread. If you run a consumer app with under-18 exposure, assume your compliance surface will increasingly be mediated by Apple/Google policy rather than 50 different state laws, and design your data flows and UX to survive that gatekeeping.
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