# 'Show Me Your Credentials' Era: New SaaS Market Opened by Mandatory Age and Identity Verification

- Link: https://expression.fire.org/p/the-papers-please-era-of-the-internet
- Discussion: https://startupxo.com/en/514/
- Posted by mrlatte at 2026-06-26T09:00:00.000Z
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- Written in ko, machine translated to en

## 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.

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