As an aside for anyone interested in this particular conspiracy theory, check out the great black comedy mockumentary Operation Avalanche

Interesting differences in the apple case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games_v._Apple

From a policy perspective, one compromise is building in this kind of ambiguity, for privacy sake. When policy specifies 13 years+1, the tradeoff is a max of +364 days in the worst case: someone who we know is born in 2015, is def 13 in 2029