[ChocolateGod]

IIRC laws in some US states will require OS's to collect the age of the user so services can age restrict, it does not mandate any kind of ID verification.

It doesn't matter it's an open source project, ultimately it ends up in commercial products which do require following the rules.

[LtWorf]

The commercial products can patch it then if they so wish.

[ChocolateGod]

The field does nothing when left untouched, which it is by default.

If having the ability to set a piece of metadata worries you, don't set it.

[LtWorf]

One field doesn't worry me. IBM being in charge of a core linux component does.