userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records by dylanmtaylor · Pull Request #40954 · systemd/systemd
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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. The xdg-desktop-portal project is addi...

Not to mention that they locked the unpopular pull request from reactions.

  • Sunshine@piefed.caOPEnglish
    17·
    15 hours ago

    False equivalence as privacy is a human right. Article 12 of the UN declaration of human rights.

    People have the right to switch projects and criticize the actions of the developers.

    • infeeeee@lemmy.zip
      5·
      15 hours ago

      So it’s the legistlation’s fault again, why aren’t you mad at them, why only systemd? In other jurisdictions you don’t have to use this field. And I don’t see anything in the PR about the verifability of the date. It’s just an optional number it stores in a db, offline.

      Programmers have to become lawyers now?

      Also a lot other projects has a birthday field, e.g. last time I worked with was LDAP: https://ldapwiki.com/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Birthdate I guess it’s there since the 90s.

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        10·
        11 hours ago

        The hell are you on about? People can, and are, upset about both. That said, changing a piece of software is monumentally easier than changing laws when you’re up against an entire industry lobbying against your interests.

        That’s why you see the focus on the software.

        Systemd refusing and telling CA to figure it the fuck out would have been one of the strongest counters to this bullshit currently available, and that option was just thrown in the fucking garbage. Of course people are going to be mad at systemd.