Possibly linuxYou guys fell for clickbait
irelephant [he/him]Storing a users birthday is useful metadata anyway. I’m surprised it wasn’t stored before.
The age isn’t verified is any way. You can set it to the 1800s for all it cares
RustyNovaYeah like the email address and the full name of the user.
… What do you mean it’s blank for 99% of users?
driving_croonerEmail address and name are actually useful for network environments of a system admin needs to know who is the user behind a process or something. How old the user is is complete useless.
KogasaUnless your system is for you and your kid, for example
EldritchFemininityAnd how is it useful then? Parental controls have existed for decades and you never had to give your age to Facebook, who is the main proponent of these laws in the US and has poured millions of dollars into their creation.
This isn’t about protecting kids. It’s about adding an additional fingerprint companies and governments can use to track and identify you and what you do with your system.
Providing a place to store and read data for minimal, nominal, non-invasive compliance with legislation so that people can protect themselves without harming anyone else
Things I have never said anything about:
- Giving your age to anyone
- Laws in the US
- Protecting kids
- Fingerprinting
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