Apple age verification with a privacy focus would solve two problems<div class="feat-image">

</div><p>While Apple is <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/10/tim-cook-meets-lawmakers-in-effort-to-halt-app-store-age-proposal/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">currently lobbying against[/url] being given a legal responsibility <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/01/app-store-accountability-act-would-make-apple-responsible-for-age-verification/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">for age verification[/url] when it comes to downloading apps, I think the company’s customers would very much benefit from it taking on this role.</p>
<p>Given the company’s track record in finding privacy-respecting approaches to personal data, I would like to see it go even further than the proposals we’ve seen to date … </p>
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