House Resolution Seeks Industry-Led App Ratings Board
A House resolution calls on the tech industry to create an “industry-run rating board to streamline age-appropriate app ratings.” Introduced Friday by Reps. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., and Mike Johnson, R-La., it calls for a board created by the tech industry…
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and app developers to “enforce consistent and accurate age and content ratings of apps on internet-ready devices.” It urges tech platforms to “to ensure the implementation of user-friendly and streamlined parental controls on devices used by minors.” Parents are “left in the dark” because app ratings are “misleading or inaccurate,” said the National Center on Sexual Exploitation.