Apple reluctantly forces strict new age checks on Texas users starting today by Paul Hill
Apple will begin enforcing the Texas Age Assurance Law (SB 2420) following a recent court ruling that lifted an injunction on SB 2420. Starting June 4 (today), Apple will enforce strict age-verification and parental-consent rules for new Apple accounts created in Texas.
This move will affect children under 18 who go to download apps or attempt to make in-app purchases.
Apple previously expressed privacy concerns related to this law, but compliance is now mandatory for the company, nevertheless. Apple will use several APIs to follow the law. Principally, the Declared Age Range API will fetch the specific user age bracket (Under 13, 13-15, 16-17, or 18+) and a verification method. The Significant Change API (PermissionKit) will trigger a system dialog for parental consent if an app gets a major update or an age-rating shift.
There is also a new property type in StoreKit that allows developers to automatically check when their app’s age rating has changed on a user’s device and then use the Significant Change API to request parental consent. Finally, App Store Server Notifications can be configured to tell developers when a parent revokes consent, blocking app launches.
To ensure they are ready for these changes, developers must immediately use Apple’s sandbox testing environment to validate these APIs in their apps. For any developers out there finding this to be inconvenient, get used to it. Other regions, such as Utah, Louisiana, and Brazil, are looking at, or have implemented, similar rules.
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Software posted here is compiled for Windows x64 Edition. Please post more applications, they need not be free!
Anti-Virus
Avast!
NOD32
Symantec Antivirus
Audio/Video Editing/Production
Cakewalk Sonar x64
VirtualDub
Benchmarks
CineBench
FRAPS
Desktop Customisation
WindowBlinds
Disk mangement
FileDisk x64 (Unofficial)
WinImage
File Compression
7-Zip
Squeez
WinRAR (latest beta has x64 shell extensions)
Firewall
Tiny Firewall 64
Games
Far Cry x64 upgrade
Graphics
POV-Ray
Networking
PuTTy x64 (Unofficial)
System Utilties
Filemon x64
OpenGL Extensions Viewer
Prime95
Process Explorer
Regmon x64
StartupMonitor64
O&O Defrag (Beta!)
Tweaking Software
TweakUI64 (Unofficial)
Web Software:
Mozilla Firefox (Unofficial x64 build)
Sun Java x64
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