Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field

• mcv@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It already has fields for personal information, though, and they’re every bit as sensitive as your birthdate. realName, emailAddress, location, and timezone are already in there. The important part is that they’re all optional, and you don’t have to fill them in at all, or can fill them in with fake data. The system still serves you, not some outside party.

  But the timing of it does have a lot of people freaking out about it.

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  • tabular@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I now fear it will one day be required for services on the internet (as it is by a rescent law in Calafornia). I want to make that less uikely, and more difficult to implement.

    Having a principle the majority do not have and refusing to participate means being another step further out of society.

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• AcornTickler@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It doesn’t need to know your age. It just provides a way to take a note of your birth date, only if you want to. The system already has a place to write your name and home address. All are optional and practically nobody uses them.

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• Yttra@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And it still doesn’t, the blank space does not need to be filled

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  • bruzzard@lemmy.world ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    …until it becomes a requirement to be filled.

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• idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It doesn’t know how old are you, it just remembers a date you tell it. You can give your birthday, but you can choose any other day

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  • GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is step 1.

    Final step: Scan your passport to verify and populate the date of birth field.

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