Monday afternoon, the Senate Commerce and Tourism Committee will hold an audience to discuss Senate bill 1438presented by the senator Erin Grall. This bill requires application stores and operating systems to obtain parents’ consent before minors can download applications on their devices.
SB 1438 Mirrors House majority leader Tyler Sirois‘ House Bill 931which was introduced last month and awaits its own committee audience. The analysis of invoices indicates that these identical invoices “will improve online protections for minors” by demanding that application stores offer parental management functionalities for the use of a minor applications and devices.
Florida follows many states at the national level which have introduced similar legislation to provide parents with more complete tools to monitor and approve each application that their children download, not just social media applications.
Utah became the first state to adopt such legislation in February. The Utah bill awaits the governor’s signature. He has already been Approved by the American senator Mike Leethat should reintroduce your own federal bill requiring age verification and parental consent at the level of the App Store in the coming days.
Tiffany JusticeCo-founder of Moms for Liberty and Visiting Fellow at La Heritage Foundation, rented Lee’s efforts, declaring: “Utah legislators know that parents belong to the driver’s headquarters regarding their children and access to technology. Congratulations to UTAH parents for being respected! Let’s move this federal legislation! »»
Rep. Mike Haridopolos Supported the proposal to hold responsible application stores and provide parents with greater tools because “the influence of this phone is powerful”.
“Why would we not just have as if you had ratings on movies and the same things to keep online, because you can’t even go to all the different paths and online?” Said Haridopolos. “And even when you had your blockers, the children are creative and they find ways to get around this. And so that’s something we have to look at because the influence of this phone is powerful. »»
Apple and Google have recently updated their children’s safety measures to pre -empt legislation forcing application stores to offer better tools to developers and parental consent mechanisms. However, legislators have considered these efforts insufficient.
Earlier this year, the Foundation for American Innovation (FAI) published a newspaper Add for the age of the App Store and the parents’ consent.
“Age verification at the level of the App Store and the operating system has several advantages: the compliance burden limited to a small number of very resources; Centralization avoids fragmentation over hundreds of thousands of applications; More likely to survive a constitutional examination, ” poster Evan SwarztrauberSenior fellow in Fa.
The other states that envisage similar legislation include Texas, Alabama, Kentucky, South Carolina, Virginia-Western, etc.
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