Integrating Apple, Google Age Signals Requires Care, Say Lawyers
Questions remain about how companies can use new Apple and Google application programming interfaces (APIs) to comply with app store age-verification laws coming into effect soon in California, Louisiana, Texas and Utah, Frankfurt Kurnit privacy attorneys blogged Monday.
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To address requirements from the new state laws, Apple released an API on Declared Age Range and another on significant app updates that require parental consent, while Google launched a beta for its Play Age Signals API, wrote the law firm’s Andrew Folks and Emma Smizer. “Integrating both APIs will require careful sequencing and organizational cooperation for implementation.”
“These laws and platform tools will continue to evolve,” the lawyers added. “Apple plans to release further tools to address statutory wrinkles, and Google continues to update its API during its beta period.” Meanwhile, even if the state laws are “successfully challenged, this increased scrutiny for children’s access to digital services is not likely to disappear any time soon,” they said.