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On paper, I think it would actually be nice if it wasn't mandatory (because you'd only have to enter your age once). But because it is mandatory, it's gonna be abused by the state looking for targets.

Its basically just asking for a birthdate in you user profile and trusting you not to lie. Not much to abuse there, and apps don’t need to scrape any other data than “what is user’s” age.

Typically a minor will have their device set up by their parent. The parent isnt likely going to lie, and a minor wont be able to just change their account age. Its different from the website, because the minor controls what birthday they input.

it sorta sounds like the intent here is to get in front of the dumb way governments have started to demand every website and service individually require collecting personal information for age verification. from a quick read of the law, which is like 2 pages long

not trying to defend it or anything since it'd be better if they'd all just fucking stop with this nonsense. but I can sorta see what the logic is for this one

"self report your age to the OS and this must be deemed as good enough by apps that require age verification" vs "send your information to palantir every time you log into discord"