alt Hacker Newsfor my taste that goes a bit too much into "you don't have anything to hide" and doomerism. if one wants, one can boot a TailsOS with a VPN and then no, the gov does not have all the data it needs to link it to you. just because lots of stuff is being monitored we don't have to destroy every privacy boundary in existence.
We're talking about age, not about your foot fetish, the government definitely knows about your age.
There are technical ways to implement this correctly, it's a political problem, not a technical one.