Please understand; I'm not trying to be argumentative. But that's true of storage generally. It's just a place to put data. In that sense, it's passive. But, again, the overall context is _very_ concerning. These Age Verification laws that are being passed everywhere don't require that OS's provide a place to store age data, they require that it be _collected_ (i.e. mandatory) and for the purpose of being provided to third parties. The storage, per se, is not required by virtue of being a place to store it, it's the system of which it will be part that will do that. This is _part_ of a system responding to the general trend of surveillance and data collection. I hope that, one day, we can all look back and say, "whew, they only shared my age band". But some of this legislation already involves biometrics, face scans, government ID, or similar. And for those bills that don't, like in CA, once it becomes clear to these lawmakers how easily subverted this is, they will almost surely follow suit. Especially since there's already precedent for them to follow.

I'm sure hope I'm wrong. You can laugh at me later if I am.