Engadget

MARCH 26, 2025

Utah Governor Spencer Cox has signed the App Store Accountability Act into law, making it the first state to require that app store makers verify their users' ages. The legislation is intended to protect children and teens, according to bill sponsor Todd Weiler, a Republican state senator.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

It cites the Save the Children and Utah Food Bank breaches as especially costly examples of weak security measures. By contrast, Bloomerang’s short guide to nonprofit cybersecurity goes into depth about the danger of poor security practices. Worse still, these scandals caused long-term damage to these organizations’ reputations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Note from Beth: As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I’ve had the honor of designing and facilitating a “networked capacity building project” for a cluster of grantees, state-based groups, to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. Life Elevated.” of the past.

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Engadget

MARCH 5, 2025

Utah has once again passed a bill that attempts to place new limits on childrens ability to access social media and other apps. Should the governor sign the bill into law, it would be (as The Verge points out ) the first such measure in the country. Even so, other states are likely to follow Utahs lead on this issue.

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Engadget

MARCH 12, 2025

Google is pushing back on a bill that would make Utah the first state in the US to have a law requiring app stores to conduct age verification of their users. A spokesperson also confirmed that the company requested that Utah Governor Spencer Cox veto the bill. A spokesperson for Cox didnt immediately respond to a request for comment.

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2020

Here’s Caroline Haskins writing Tuesday in BuzzFeed : Utah Gov. San Francisco, in a possible step toward a contact isolation program, has begun paying to house people who were homeless in hotels as a measure to reduce the spread of the disease. Israel and Denmark are among the countries that have been using such facilities.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

Lately, he has been addressing the consumer technology problems highlighted during the pandemic, including the lack of access to broadband at home in rural areas, an education gap with children due to limited internet access, and a threat to privacy with the introduction of contact tracing. NP: Let me just push back on that a little bit.

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