{"id":967094,"date":"2025-10-09T11:13:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=967094"},"modified":"2025-10-09T11:13:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:43:42","slug":"apple-will-force-texas-teenagers-to-get-permission-before-downloading-any-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/09\/apple-will-force-texas-teenagers-to-get-permission-before-downloading-any-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple will force Texas teenagers to get permission before downloading any app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting January 1, 2026, Apple will require anyone creating a new Apple Account in Texas to confirm whether they&#8217;re over 18, marking a significant shift in how the company manages underage users. Minors will be locked into Family Sharing groups, giving parents and guardians approval rights over every app download, purchase, and in-app transaction.<\/p>\n<p>Apple announced the changes while voicing sharp concerns about the privacy trade-offs involved. The company warned that Texas&#8217; App Store Accountability Act forces users to hand over &#8220;sensitive, personally identifiable information to download any app, even if a user simply wants to check the weather or sports scores.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting January 1, 2026, Apple will require anyone creating a new Apple Account in Texas to confirm whether they&#8217;re over 18, marking a significant shift in how the company manages underage users. Minors will be locked into Family Sharing groups, giving parents and guardians approval rights over every app download, purchase, and in-app transaction. Apple announced the changes while voicing sharp concerns about the privacy trade-offs involved. The company warned that Texas&#8217; App Store Accountability Act forces users to hand over &#8220;sensitive, personally identifiable information to download any app, even if a user simply wants to check the weather or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}