United StatesS. 1586, App Store Accountability Act (federal)
In committee, dated , as of .
An app store age verification (AV) rule binding private bodies.
- Private right of action
- No
- Enforcement body
- Federal Trade Commission (proposed); state attorneys general (proposed)
- Audit expectation
- none
Where it has got to
The text described here is S. 1586 as introduced in the Senate. That print is S.1586 IS, published .
Locally, this stage is referred to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
The stage above is recorded at www.congress.gov.
Introduced and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on ; no further committee action has been recorded, and the bill has not been reported.
What it requires
- Applies to a covered app store provider, one with 5,000,000 or more United States users, and to app developers distributing through such stores.
- As a covered app store provider, verify a user's age category.
- For a minor, obtain verifiable parental consent before the minor may download or purchase an app or make an in-app purchase.
- As an app developer, rely on the app store's age-category signal and honor its parental-consent status.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What it reaches
Age threshold
18
Covered services
App store operators with 5,000,000 or more United States users, and the app developers distributing through them.
How the hook was established
express
What makes it apply
Market targeting
Verification methods
Digital ID, Device signal, Self declaration
What it makes you log
Who may demand the log
Counterparty
What the log must hold
Age assurance result, Consent or opt-out state
Log retention
Section 3(a)(6)(A) sets no retention period.
- As of
- Basis
- Purpose bound
- Prohibits retaining
- Personal data related to age verification beyond what is strictly necessary to verify a user's age, obtain verifiable parental consent or maintain compliance records
Logging duty
The bill orders no log of age checks by name. Section 3(a)(6)(A) lets a covered app store provider collect, process and store age verification data only as strictly necessary to verify age, obtain verifiable parental consent or maintain compliance records, and Section 3(a)(4) and (8) require it to pass each user's age category and parental consent status to developers, which cannot be done without keeping them. As introduced.
- Kind
- Implicit
- As of
- Provision
- S. 1586, Section 3(a)(6)(A)
- Trigger
- age_assurance
What this law does
Companion bill to H.R. 3149 with identical text as introduced. Would require a covered app store provider (one with 5,000,000 or more United States users) to verify a user's age category and, for a minor, obtain verifiable parental consent before the minor may download or purchase an app or make an in-app purchase, and would require an app developer to rely on the app store's age-category signal and honor its parental-consent status.
Preempts state app store age-verification laws and designates the Federal Trade Commission as primary enforcer, with state attorneys general also authorized to sue. Read twice and referred to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on ; no committee action has been recorded since.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app operates an app store.
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