A special panel of the European Commission recommends age verification or age estimation for social media, but also greater cooperation between regulators to ensure they comply with fundamental rights requirements UK has its legal foundation in place, and is ready to take on the social media in the role of dragon-slaying popular hero. The United States could be the next big market for facial age estimation, with a bipartisan proposal in the House to require biometric age assurance during user authentication. The idea is to prevent youths from using accounts belonging to people who passed conventional identity checks during onboarding, and thus a potential expansion of requirements.