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.
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.
Can i not use age verification in systemd if i dont live in usa?
Yes
And even if you do live there.
You can even not use it if you live in the US. There’s nothing that enforces you put a date in there (and nothing to verify if it’s correct, which is why people say it’s not age verification).
Easy to flag. Then Lennart Poettering’s startup van deploy the ID tech to comply with age verification laws.
As long as I’m root in Linux there’s nothing that can be done about me doing whatever I want with that field. I’ll be born in 420-6-9, name “blaze” surname “it”.
That’s the difference between windows and Linux. In Linux I’m truly root, the I do control everything in it, sometimes to my detriment, but definitely in my benefit in these occasions.
Also, anything the Spanish government wants to protect, is as easy as forcing us to use a free to emit electronic certificate that personally identifies us, which is already used to enter public services webpages in a secure way.
That age thing is actually way more useful that proper bullshit age verification, because parents, actual parents, can set a user account for their kids on the PC, and then that field would actually be valuable to limit access to tools. You know, instead of surrendering power to the government, which this tool doesn’t do, you would be giving power to parents to be proactive in protecting their kids.
Isn’t that one of the most prominent talking points against mas surveillance based kid protection? Of which I completely agree, about giving tools and power to parents so they can better cater the exposure of their kids, without surrendering control, I mean.
For now. Let’s not pretend this doesn’t lay groundwork for goverment to require id verification.
were we not dealing with fascism i would not mind this, i’d think it was just part of a functional digital ID environment. that’s part of the problem. is it that i need to reconceptualize the digital ID or idk.