1. A method of verifying an age of a bearer of a document, said method comprising: receiving, at a processor, first digital data corresponding to an age indicator, the first digital data being obtained from auxiliary data steganographically embedded in the document using a fragile watermark, wherein the fragile watermark is predictably degraded when the document is copied; determining the document is an original document and not a copy of the original document based on a predictable degradation of the fragile watermark; receiving second digital data corresponding to a biometric indicator, the second digital data being obtained from auxiliary data steganographically embedded in the document; receiving third digital data corresponding to a biometric sample, wherein the biometric sample corresponds to the bearer, and the biometric sample is physically captured from the bearer; and verifying the bearer's age based upon determining the first digital data indicates that the bearer is at least as old as a predetermined age, determining the second digital data and the third digital data correspond, and the determining the document is the original document based on the predictable degradation of the fragile watermark.