You're missing the point. This isn't reptilians siphoning your DNA and iris scans, it's an attack on digital freedoms. Your phone can verify your identity priva

You're missing the point. This isn't reptilians siphoning your DNA and iris scans, it's an attack on digital freedoms. Your phone can verify your identity privately and offline, sure. But only if the party you're attesting to trusts your phone isn't lying about your age. In other words, the only way the scheme works is if users don't control their devices. Want to go online? You have to use a locked down industry-approved terminal device (Google's Android, Apple computer, Windows 12 with a TPM or whatever). It completes the erosion of end-user control of the means of computation. Three companies will dictate all software you're allowed to run on modern hardware, attempts to run your own stuff will fall afoul of anti-DRM circumvention laws and be a felony. All software development, even basic automation and scripting, will be relegated to hobbyist programmable microcontrollers and cloud VMs. This is the future we're gunning for full-speed-ahead, with basically no push-back. What should've been an empowering technology brought to the masses, allowing free-form problem solving, communication, and collaborative solution building has been near-totally dominated by barely-functional opaque push-button solutions and constricting walled gardens. I chalk it up to a total failure of education to teach people how powerful computing can be to solve everyday problems, combined with a concerted effort by tech companies to teach helplessness in pursuit of profits.