New Delhi, Oct. 19 -- Accounts registered as 13-year-olds could access dozens of apps with sexual-image manipulation features despite parental controls, the Tech Transparency Project reported on October 19. The findings concern enforcement at Apple and Google, not another newly announced app-store rule.

one default and one parent-supervised account on each platform. Researchers used fictional, AI-generated adult subjects for testing, not photographs of children. The accounts did not represent actual teenage participants.

TTP identified 135 apps across the accounts. The supervised Apple account accessed 24 and its Google counterpart 51; default accounts accessed 61 and 47 respectively. These account-level counts overlap and should not be...