The headline has “verification” in it presumably as to dog whistle to recent verification schemes gone awry to apparently drive clicks, but the quotes of the law in question don’t seem to actually warrant verification. Just to associate an age to a user account, which seems fine? So long as sudoers are assumed to be 18+ this could have near zero practical impact for day to day setup for many use cases. And let’s face it what’s the point if you are a sudoer, you could just change it?