{"id":514,"kind":"story","title":"'Show Me Your Credentials' Era: New SaaS Market Opened by Mandatory Age and Identity Verification","url":"https://expression.fire.org/p/the-papers-please-era-of-the-internet","host":"expression.fire.org","by":"mrlatte","score":1,"comments":0,"editorial_comments":0,"time":"2026-06-26T09:00:00.000Z","origin":"archive","language":{"source":"ko","reading":"en","translated":true},"summary":["The UK, EU, USA, and Australia are successively enforcing age and identity verification by law.","In the US alone, 19 states have passed laws restricting minors' access to social media, while over 20 states have enacted age verification laws for adult content.","Money flows not to those who collect more IDs, but to those that relieve platforms of regulatory differences and data breach burdens.","Combining requirements from various countries and states into a single API, designed to return only the necessary age status, is gaining value."],"discussion":"https://startupxo.com/en/514/","markdown":"https://startupxo.com/en/514.md","api":"https://startupxo.com/api/v1/item.json?id=514&lang=en","text":null,"edited":null,"sources":[],"thread":[]}