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App Store Accountability Act Legislative Toolkit

It’s Time to Put Kids Before Big Tech Corporations

App Store Accountability Means Safe Kids and Empowered Parents

80% of parents support requiring parental permission before a minor opens a social media account, and 77% support giving parents administrator-level access to what kids are seeing and doing online.

It’s Time to Put Kids Before Big Tech Corporations

Get the Model Bill for States

Model Legislation for States

The bill has three key components —

Age verification
Parental consent
Transparency requirements

— which are essential to this effort.

Confronting the Brokers of Digital Harm

91% of 14-year-olds own a smartphone. Smartphones and app stores function as the gateway between young users and harmful content. They control access to millions of apps and digital services yet fail to effectively restrict minors from inappropriate material or engaging in exploitative contracts with powerful corporations. To break the hold of these platforms on our kids, app store regulation is critical.

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A Two-Page Fact Sheet About the Model Bill

Here is the brief guide our coalition has put together for your resourcing and reference! In this short primer on the App Store Accountability Act, you will find helpful explanations about why it is important, what it does, and how it works.

Download the PDF factsheet

Voices for App Store Accountability

Todd Weiler

Attorney, Utah State Senator

Brandon Guffey

State Representative, South Carolina

Melissa McKay

Child Advocate, Parental Controls and Device Safety Expert

Brad Wilcox

Melville Foundation Jefferson Scholars Foundation, Professor of Sociology and Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.