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App Store users in Texas will now need to verify their age (appleinsider.com)
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In May 2025, the Texas App Store Accountability Act made it mandatory for companies like Apple and Google to verify the ages of their Texas-based users. As the law is set to be enforced starting Thursday, Apple has outlined an update to its App Store rules.

On the Apple Developer website, the company explained that new Apple Accounts in Texas will be subject to "age assurance and parent or guardian consent on behalf of minors under the age of 18 for downloads, Apple In-App Purchases, and significant changes associated with an app."

In practice, this means that anyone who wants to create an Apple Account in Texas must verify that they are 18 or older. Those under 18 will need to join a Family Sharing group, and parents will be able to revoke access to previously approved App Store apps.

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[–] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

The technofacists are the advertisers man. All that data is what fuels ads, surveillance and all the rest. They built the platforms and the intelligence capabilities. Whoever has the most data drives the most effective ads, surveillance pricing, targeted promotions, etc.

If they didn't start off early on using the data for advertisement, they wouldn't have continued their journey to use the same data for big brother tech. There's a ton of extra steps and things along the way, but at some point once a company starts making billions of dollars they all get into politics and lobbying (we really need to call lobbying political bribes.) They're just taking things a few more steps further nowadays. They are ALL complicit with what is going on.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Advertisers are their excuse, they are a user, not the primary one. This is about complete collection of data, fed into half baked ai threat detection, with firms like palantir making secret social scores to be secretly used against us in everything from business to government.

    This is being spearheaded by the technofascists and others for that purpose, not advertising although they are in on it I'm sure.

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