[nine_k]

Why, it's fine to have these values in a corporate environment: name, work email, office location. I'd be fine with an ability to store the birth date, the blood type, the zodiac sign, actually an arbitrary list of key-value pairs, as long as it's optional.

It's only a problem when the OS insists on recording your private information to let you access your private account.

[db48x]

It is an optional field, and so far there is no software that asks for this information, let alone insists on it.

[stevenalowe]

which is the logical next legislative step