You guys fell for memebait

Stores the user’s birth date for age verification, as required by recent laws in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954

As long as you can put whatever you want it’s a form of parental control and not age verification.

We could also use the term “age declaration”.

It’s not by itself an outrageous feature (what does that even mean, outrageous feature). What is outrageous is that governments around the world are starting to think they have the authority to compel this.