Verify user ages for regulatory compliance without collecting or storing personal identity documents.
Added Mar 11, 2026
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New legislation like the Kids Online Safety Act and KOSMA is forcing platforms to verify user ages, but current methods require collecting government IDs, credit cards, or biometric data. This creates massive privacy risks for users and enormous data liability for platforms, effectively killing online anonymity to comply with child safety laws.
A zero-knowledge age verification API? that platforms integrate to confirm a user is over a required age threshold without the platform ever seeing or storing identity documents. Using cryptographic anonymous credentials and trusted third-party attestation, users verify once and receive a reusable privacy-preserving token that proves age without revealing identity.
Multiple U.S. bills (KOSA, KOSMA) are advancing through Congress in 2026, creating immediate regulatory pressure on every platform hosting user-generated content. Platforms need compliant solutions now but lack the cryptographic expertise to build privacy-preserving systems in-house.
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Why Why do I need to use my id to verify my age, I’m already using ai, why would I want it to have my face and age and other personal info?
PolyBuzz destroyed its own app. The new age‑check is a joke — the face scan fails constantly, even for adults, and when it breaks the app demands a government ID just to chat. This blocks minors, people without IDs, and anyone who values privacy. PolyBuzz was built on anonymity, and now it’s unusable because their broken AI can’t estimate age
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