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Committee hears App Store Accountability Act to require parental approval at store level
Summary
Representative Melanie Miller presented House Bill 226, the App Store Accountability Act, proposing age verification and parental approval for app-store downloads for minors; sponsors cited parental polling and similar recent state laws; committee members asked about constitutional and interstate-commerce issues and enforcement fines.
Representative Melanie Miller told the Ohio House Judiciary Committee that House Bill 226, the App Store Accountability Act, would require app stores to verify a parent or guardian and a child’s age once at the store-account level and require parental approval for downloads by minors.
Miller said the proposal shifts age verification “to the app store level” to protect children from harmful content, enhance data privacy, and make parental approval simpler than requiring app-by-app consent. She said parents would confirm their identity once in the store account (for example with an ID or credit card) and receive…
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