Wow, picking choice words only in sections of the laws and proposals. At least *try* and engage in honest discussion, mate, Honestly, just go check Ageless Linux's site. They have a complete rundown on how and where does each law's expectation come from. Just one (1) example: > SB 142 — App Store Accountability Act Requires "commercially reasonable" method. In other words, the powerful agents of the market (the Googles, the Facebooks, the NSAs) get to choose what you have to do to validate. Could even require biometrics. > there’s no alien intelligence or protocol specification in systemd that ensures or says the dob field must be accurate either That's because systemd, a well-known Microslop infection into the Linux ecosystem, is using the wayland playbook: specify nothing, leave to other projects the task and legal weight of implementation. All systemd has to do is to ship the field, then other projects are delegated the task of entering in a "legally compliant" way.