Utah Teen Social Media Restrictions Raise Compliance Questions

The wireless industry wants to remove mobile subscriber data as a means to verify age under Utah’s first-in-the-nation law requiring parental consent for youth on social media.

That was one of the comments Wednesday at a Utah Department of Commerce’s Division of Consumer Protection hearing on a proposed rule to implement social media restrictions for users under 18. The rule outlines how companies could verify a user’s age by using government IDs, facial analyses, and other methods.

The wireless communications industry supports the intent of the rulemaking but doesn’t believe mobile telephone subscriber data should be included as an age ...