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    [–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Yeah like the email address and the full name of the user.

    ... What do you mean it's blank for 99% of users?

    [–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Email address and name are actually useful for network environments of a system admin needs to know who is the user behind a process or something. How old the user is is complete useless.

    [–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Unless your system is for you and your kid, for example

    [–] bootleg@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Do you not know how old your child is?

    [–] kogasa@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago

    Are you serious? I mean there's a lot of dumb shit in this thread but come on

    And how is it useful then? Parental controls have existed for decades and you never had to give your age to Facebook, who is the main proponent of these laws in the US and has poured millions of dollars into their creation.

    This isn't about protecting kids. It's about adding an additional fingerprint companies and governments can use to track and identify you and what you do with your system.

    [–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I have mine set ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯