Texas assina lei de segurança online supostamente contrariada por Tim Cook da Apple
In Brief
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1:11 PM PDT · May 27, 2025
Greg Abbott, governor of Texas, as US President Donald Trump, not pictured,
speaks before an executive order signing in the East Room of the White House in
Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, March 20, 2025. The order directs the secretary
of education to take steps to close the department and “return education
authority to the States,” according to a White House fact sheet on the order.
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TEXAS SIGNS INTO LAW ONLINE SAFETY BILL REPORTEDLY OPPOSED BY APPLE’S TIM COOK
Gov. Abbott of Texas officially signed into law the online child safety bill
that will require Apple and Google’s app stores to verify the age of their users
and obtain approval from parents before minors download or make in-app
purchases. The law will go into effect on January 1.
The bill made headlines last week as it was revealed
[https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/23/apple-ceo-reportedly-urged-texas-governor-to-ditch-online-child-safety-bill/]
Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly called Gov. Abbott in hopes of convincing him to
either ditch or make changes to the law after it passed the Texas legislature.
Apple, alongside Google, was working with interest groups to fight the
legislation, with Apple in particular saying that the implementation of such a
bill could pose a threat to user privacy.
Apple lobbyists managed to stop a similar bill from passing in Louisiana last
year, though the state is revisiting the bill.
Utah was the first state to pass a similar app store bill, which went into
effect this year. At least nine other states are reportedly looking to implement
[https://www.wsj.com/tech/tim-cook-called-texas-governor-to-stop-online-child-safety-legislation-22858ad4]
their own versions.
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