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On 2026-04-03 10:51, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 03/04/2026 02:11, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2026-04-03 01:08, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

On Thu,  2 Apr 2026 23:41:21 +0200 (CEST), Worst Case wrote:

The worry is that, while they're verifying your age, they're
verifying dozens of other things and conveying all of it (for a
price) to your content provider.

Which is why the age verifier must be an independent authority.

There are already Government departments whose job it is to collect
personal information about you, that includes your date of birth: e.g.
tax department, social welfare. Any one of those could also be the
age-verification authority, without any additional risk to your
personal information.

My government doesn't need to collect any such information. They
already know. Earlier than me, in fact.

Gotta lurve the EU

Not related at all. They have been doing that maybe for centuries, only
that now they have the technology to get the info instantly.

Actually, the EU ruled protections for the citizens that we did not have before, limits to the use of that information.
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Anthk wrote:

What's your opinion of this? As a GNU/Trisquel user, if the current
release
(incoming v12) ships it with SystemD (from backports), I might switch to
#GNU Guix back.

You should just be avoiding SystemD anyway because it's literal crapware developed by idiots, spyware aside.
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