<![CDATA[The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux]]>The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

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The lasting damage was knowing it could happen at all: that a single contributor with no stated organizational backing could submit compliance infrastructure for surveillance law directly into the software that boots your computer, get it merged by two Microsoft employees, and have the creator of systemd personally block the removal.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/92d3cd9a-23ad-49a1-819b-1ae398bfed45/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-age-verification-into-linuxRSS for NodeSat, 11 Apr 2026 09:37:14 GMTSat, 21 Mar 2026 07:08:54 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux on Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:04:46 GMT]]>@aaribaud @Khrys et donc ? quel est le rapport avec se poser la question du qui et du pourquoi ?

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The title says "tried to", the article says did -- and Poettering blocked a revert.

In countries where the GDPR applies, the feature appears contrary to article 5 as overbroad, even probably purposeless *per se* ; maybe also contrary to recent European decisions against generalized citizen data collection, too.

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