Texas asks court to leave in place age-verification and parental-consent law on apps (opens in new tab)

On Monday afternoon, Texas urged the Supreme Court to leave in place an order by the U\.S\. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that allows the state to enforce a law that imposes age-verification and parental-consent requirements on minors’ access to apps and paid content within those apps\. Half the states have similar age-verification requirements for minors\. The state’s solicitor general, William Peterson, emphasized that “the modern digital world is different” from the physical world, ...