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    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

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    [–] garbage_world@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

    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.

    This is a poor wording

    That law doesn't require to verify the age of the user, it doesn't have to, because it's a law for parents.

    What you're saying is exactly slippery slope. You're taking earlier examples of completely different laws, with different purposes and mechanisms, and you make your argument based on how the implementation of those laws worked.

    Occam's razor explanation of DMCA 1201: The law makers wanted to foolproof the law and implemented security measures that weren't needed.

    Also THE only argument you have for the fact thisaw is going to be changed is the law that changed (even if only temporarily) IN A GOOD DIRECTION!

    You really made me laugh.

    Who is pushing for this?

    I want to know that too.

    I know meta lobbied for app store accountability act or smth, I don't remember it's name. They didn't do that to spy on people, but because they wanted to shift the blame.