[akersten]

In my experience the people who want "privacy preserving age verification" are the same people who want "encryption backdoors but only for the good guys." Shockingly the technically minded among them do seem to recognize the impossibility of the latter, without applying the same chain of thought to the former.

[Seattle3503]

They are fundementally different problems. It is already the governments job to maintain a record of their citizens and basic demographic information like age.

Private actors are already offering verification as a paid service. They are accumulating vast troves of private date to offer the service.