You guys fell for clickbait

https://lemmy.zip/post/61219686

It’s enablement.
Of what?
They ask for it to store a date today, ask for IDs the next. Heck they already want 3d printers to somehow identify if they’re printing parts that can be used in guns, but 3d printers don’t have that kind of computing power nor should they need that so odds are most companies will require an internet connection and upload to a central server to be analyzed. And thus privacy goes away unintentionally.

They aren’t “asking for a date”

The PR in question just adds a way to store a birth date. That’s it

But why are they?

To comply

To not comply while superficially pretending to, I suspect, from studying that PR. See my other comment above, where I run my mouth a little longer about this.
This hasn’t been needed until just now, coincidentally when dipshit one-foot-in-the-grave out of touch sociopaths try to make it a law? It’s just a fluke that the timing is the same?
In order to comply with the specific Californian law. It’s referenced in the PR. If you could read (to quote your meme) you’d be very upset.
In before there’s a fork that automatically sets the age to April 1st, 1984.