Lately there has been a lot of controversy about age verification and it’s implementation in places such as UK and US.
The main critic to this mechanism is due being done through facial recognition or a government ID which are privacy invasive.
So here is my question as someone who comes from IT, wouldn’t it be possible to create a device which just gives out true or false depending if the person is of age, given some kind of piece of DNA (hair, blood, nails) ?
I known there is carbon dating, but from what I understand is a bit of complicated process. The human body however shows it’s age visually and I would be interested to know if genetically there are some signs as well that could be somewhat used in a automatic process.
Again I come from IT, just curious about the implications and your takes on the problem.
Of course this is bad for privacy. But the fundamental idea of trying to age lock information is also flawed. The government, or corporations, should not be able to decide who can and can’t see certain information, especially not because of an arbitrary characteristic such as age, which does not correlate to maturity at all. This is dystopic.