Comment by iamnothere
2 days ago
Laying the infrastructure for surveillance qualifies.
Reporting age brackets to applications or websites via API definitely qualifies. (It reveals private information about the user.)
I will proactively remove any such fields or signals from my installs, thank you very much. Although fortunately all of the OSes I use have signaled noncompliance.
How is it different from anything else that gets reported to applications, like the username? Knowing my name is "George" is actually much worse than knowing I'm over 18.
My username is “anon”.
And your age is 25, no matter what it actually is.
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