Two thoughts. First, there is a way to high chance that some people are basically doing this already or are taking inspiration from this. Second, the tell that it’s a joke article is that they bothered to destroy the prints, which implies that they bothered to scan them as well.

They just said the ball was red, they didn’t say why…

Parental controls only work for their children (assuming they have any). They want the ability to also control your children, and ideally you.