You guys fell for memebait

Stores the userโ€™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

Can i not use age verification in systemd if i dont live in usa?
You can even not use it if you live in the US. Thereโ€™s nothing that enforces you put a date in there (and nothing to verify if itโ€™s correct, which is why people say itโ€™s not age verification).

required = yes

Easy to flag. Then Lennart Poetteringโ€™s startup van deploy the ID tech to comply with age verification laws.

Is it possible to fake age verification? For example adding a face scanner, which pretends to scan the face to estimate age, but actually just always returns true?