Politicians care because they literally get bribes for this shit

This is what the California law requires BTW (except it makes the field mandatory which is shit). IMO in this case the EU solution is overcomplicated, it just feels like they needed an excuse to get more out of the COVID certificate investments…

The link in the comment is borked, as expected. But the PR itself is definitely OK: https://github.com/unipop-graph/unipop/pull/138

Can’t wait for one of them to be chasing me down for the crime of “thinking unfavorably about Peter Thiel”