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Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support (itsfoss.com)
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[โ€“] goldman60@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I agree with your second paragraph but I fail to see how the existing unused fields are somehow less dangerous or a "false equivalence" to a new unused DOB field which is significantly harder to use to deanonymize someone than their name, address, and phone number.

[โ€“] Fjdybank@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

Sounds like we are violently in agreement then, that all of those fields should be removed.

Good outcome.