Age Verification is broken
Every age verification tool today wants the same thing: your face or your ID. Upload a passport, scan your face, hand over your date of birth, then trust the platform to store it safely.
That's a liability for everyone. Platforms end up holding sensitive biometric data they never wanted, users hate the friction, and it's a data breach waiting to happen. Meanwhile regulation (DSA, UK Online Safety Act, France's SREN) is making age checks mandatory, Reddit just got fined £14M for getting it wrong same as YOTI and many more to come.
So we built the opposite.
AgeCheckAPI.com verifies age through EU national digital wallets ( 450 million people) One API call, one Boolean back, over 18 : true or false. No document, no selfie, no data stored on your side. It's built on the EU age verification blueprint, and as far as we know it's the first commercial, self-serve API doing this on EU wallets.
Would love your feedback, especially from anyone who's had to implement age verification and hated every option. What would make you switch?
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This platform do not prefer genuine conversation, but fake engagement just to be upvoted. but I'll try.
Hi, never thought about this but your are absolutely right. Thinking about this for a long time. I really agree that this method is broken. since the laws aren't going back and they want to restrict even the use for social media for minors we needed a way to verify without giving up our data.