MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WBMA) — The App Store Accountability Act passed the Alabama Senate with a unanimous vote on Feb. 5. The bill is focused on online safety for children and teens by requiring parental approval for kids to download apps from the App Store, which you can read about in more detail here.
The Alabama Policy Institute says that 80% of information teens access comes from phone apps. The App Store Accountability Act, which passed the Alabama House of Representatives last month on Jan. 22, would allow parents to limit their children’s chances of exposure to inappropriate content…