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.

  • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    11 days ago

    Shit. This is actually genius and really hard to simplify further. It also never will be implemented this way by my government.

    I don’t know about the UK and the US. But Germany is in the middle of leaving the Fax era…30 years behind the rest of the world. I am right now waiting for a letter from my health insurance provider so I can use their app. It’s a week overdue.

    • ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      11 days ago

      Yeah I was overcomplicating things when a token approach maybe even generated with a card reader or through a gov platform is way more simple.

      And would not be hard to implement now that I realise there are many solutions like that such as JWT, SSL, GPG, OTP, etc …