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Birthdate field under discussion also in Arch Linux (github.com)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by pglpm@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/62271746

Add a required birth date prompt (YYYY-MM-DD) to the user creation flow, stored as a systemd userdb JSON drop-in at /etc/userdb/.user on the target system.

Motivation

Recent age verification laws in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc. require platforms to verify user age. Collecting birth date at install time ensures Arch Linux is compliant with these regulations.

This is just a pull request, no changes yet.

The pull-request discussion thread has been locked, just like it happened for the similar thread in Systemd, owing to the amount of negative comments...

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[–] spectrums_coherence@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I hope they make it very clear that setting this value is not recommended in most jurisdictions.

Since this value can be used for fingerprinting, and in the future many site will be able to at least get the age range of the user. The more people set this value, the more exposed everyone is.