Doesn’t change the fact that it needs to be stored somewhere, if the maintainers end up facing legal pressure to implement it Sure, but trying to apply it to the entire world when only a few countries are currently impacted is fishy at best. And no, we don’t know yet what the entire world will do about it, even if Meta is trying to lobby everyone, there’s also a push for making opensource exempt from it, in that case those applying the PR have worked for nothing. Are you going to oppose every other system that allows storing data too, because it might be used to store data for age verification? It depends, if the purpose is age verification then yes I will oppose it. There are legitimate, reasonable complaints to have with systemd. I didn’t have any so far, for the very simple reason that I don’t have the technical knowledge to judge by myself. This PR tho doesn’t require any tech knowledge to understand what’s going on. “We added a data field, which we’re trying to make sure doesn’t end up in the wrong hands” The road to hell is paved with good intentions, even tho by reading the PR thread I’m not sure the intentions behind the push are actually good as you seem to believe.