App Store Accountability Laws
Statute
United States (state)
· 2025
App Store Accountability laws move age verification from individual apps to the app stores, requiring Apple and Google to determine a user's age category, obtain verifiable parental consent for minors, and pass an age signal to developers — who must then act on it. It is the first time US law has mandated a specific piece of data cross an API boundary between a platform and its developers, which makes it the most directly API-relevant age regime anywhere.
Horizontal regime. It binds companies by what they do with data, software or
customers, not by the sector they sit in. The industries below are where it creates
specific, additional duties — not the limit of who has to comply.
Regions
Industries
Each links to that industry as a scored cohort — so the question "how ready is this sector for the regime that governs it?" becomes one you can actually look at.