Even if we say I agree with this, why even ask for a specific year? Separate into child and adult, and let the super user make that change when asked.
In theory I’m not opposed to it existing as an option, but I do not like it being mandatory at all. Websites and applications should never be allowed to know any PII without explicit consent.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Different countries (actually different regions within said countries) have different laws related to what “kids” can and can’t see. How much that matters is up to you. But it provides an automated check that ALSO avoids having to say “Hey mom? I just turned 18 and for no reason whatsoever it would be great if you could switch my account to an adult. Also make sure to knock and don’t look too closely at my laundry basket ever again”.
kurwa@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
That’s there point, with this websites will just know the users age, before it was the users choice: “are you 18 or over?” But now it will be: “I know you’re 37.567 years old” user has no idea. Maybe we should add religion and skin color too
njordomir@lemmy.world 7 minutes ago
"You have selected ‘Caucasian Christian’. Permanent light mode has been activated and you can no longer look up porn on Sunday.’
chisel@piefed.social 7 hours ago
The idea of storing age in the OS is that end programs don’t actually access it directly. They get age ranges, like child/adult, not the actual birthdate. In theory, it’s much more private than uploading your id and photo to every random website/app that you use.
kurwa@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
If they age or birthdate is there it could leak, regardless of the API.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Cookies already exist and there is countless leakage (both intentional and unintentional…). Like most things, you are not as private and protected as you seem to think you are. Just because a website is asking you to tell it (which is mostly for compliance, not knowledge) doesn’t mean they already know that you said you were 250 years old but your shopping habits suggest you are actually in your 20s and live in Detroit and really enjoy pegging.
To my knowledge, very few nations tie laws or access to that slippery slope fallacy. And parents generally have those same traits (at least while the kid is living with them). So I am not seeing much benefit from this?
floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
That doesn’t seem like a great argument for doing something that further reduces privacy and protection.
kurwa@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
This is being baked in because of US law. I wouldn’t be surprised if the US made some federal laws requiring your religion in the near future.
There’s a big difference between data collection and government mandated identification.