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.
There’s a difference though between counteracting the spread of a disease and looking at porn…
Yes, but this is a slippery slope. You allow a govt to ID people, track movements and restrict freedoms to counteract the spread of a disease… they test the tech. The next day they’re applying it to porn with the “lets protect children” mantra and a few months down the line they’re applying it because of “terrorism and ilegal immigration” and then you can’t travel inside your country without your digital ID flashing green and/or you cant buy stuff.
It’s not really a slippery slope though. Only when people decide it’s a slippery slope is it really one. You can easily decide differently in different cases, i.e. use the tech to prevent spread of a disease but not use the tech to restrict porn.