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Systemd adds age verification (github.com)
submitted 6 days ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/privacy@programming.dev
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Not to mention that they locked the unpopular pull request from reactions.

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[–] spectrums_coherence@piefed.social 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I think it is accessed through xdg-protal, and the usage tracking and permission etc. likely happen at that layer.

The xdg-desktop-portal project is adding an age verification portal (flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal#1922) that needs a data source for the user's age. userdb already stores personal metadata (emailAddress, realName, location) so birthDate is a natural fit.