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Missouri age verification law takes effect, codifying an attorney general rule
Missouri's HB1839 took effect, requiring third-party digital age verification or government ID checks on sites where at least a third of content is pornographic.
2026-08-28CC-BY-4.0hb1839age-verificationdata-retentionmissouri
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Key Facts
- The threshold applies to platforms where 33 percent or more of content is pornographic.
- Verification vendors are prohibited from retaining personally identifiable records.
- Enforcement sits with the state attorney general's office.
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The no-retention requirement is the provision that shapes vendor architecture, pushing designs toward ephemeral checks and attribute assertions rather than stored identity records. Content-percentage thresholds remain difficult to apply to general-purpose platforms.