Supreme Court lets Texas force app stores to check every user's age
The justices refused to block SB 2420, so Apple and Google must verify ages and get parental consent before minors download or buy inside apps.
- The law took effect in May after an appeals court paused a judge's block; a full hearing is set for August.
- Backers sell it as child protection; critics say age gates force ID checks on every adult too.
- It leaves the platforms holding a new trove of identity data, in the state that wrote the rule.
Why it matters'Protect the children' is how every checkpoint gets built: to gate the young, everyone now files past an ID desk.
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