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Of what?
They ask for it to store a date today, ask for IDs the next. Heck they already want 3d printers to somehow identify if they're printing parts that can be used in guns, but 3d printers don't have that kind of computing power nor should they need that so odds are most companies will require an internet connection and upload to a central server to be analyzed. And thus privacy goes away unintentionally.
Who? How?
It's just a stupid "slippery slope" fear mongering. "Then Linux will require a child sacrifice to even boot and will not connect to the internet unless you recite the entire Pledge of Allegiance".
Do you want me to point to the last 25 years?
I could go back further.
The slippery slope fallacy has to do with ignoring the fact that restraint is possible.
I am gonna ask you to look at the last 25 years and show me where there's been an ounce of restraint to privacy in the US. An ounce of restraint placed upon surveillance.
Yes, please point me to all the instances of open source projects implementing some mandatory ID checks. You know what? Just name one.
They aren't "asking for a date"
The PR in question just adds a way to store a birth date. That's it
But why are they?
To comply
To not comply while superficially pretending to, I suspect, from studying that PR. See my other comment above, where I run my mouth a little longer about this.
This hasn't been needed until just now, coincidentally when dipshit one-foot-in-the-grave out of touch sociopaths try to make it a law? It's just a fluke that the timing is the same?
In order to comply with the specific Californian law. It's referenced in the PR. If you could read (to quote your meme) you'd be very upset.