

I’m interested in where the line is for adding this stuff.
What if Hemmingford, NE passes the same law but wants your favorite color instead of dob? What if India says the OS needs to verify your caste, or any number of oppressive countries want your religion as a field? Hell, the US is like one step away from saying your gender assigned at birth needs to be tracked.





The point there is that complying with the whims of every town on the planet gets to be unmanageable. A town with <1000 people deciding what fields are present for the other 8 billion is insane. I picked color as an example for something dumb that wouldn’t matter. I hoped that was obvious.
And if you can just lie about it, then why even bother including the field at all?
Exactly. How does systemd decide which set of laws to follow? The ones that say you need to report the data or the ones that say you can’t?