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UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones (arstechnica.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/55094518

“The UK government wants technology companies to block explicit images on phones and computers by default to protect children, with adults having to verify their age to create and access such content,” the FT report said. “Ministers want the likes of Apple and Google to incorporate nudity-detection algorithms into their device operating systems to prevent users taking photos or sharing images of genitalia unless they are verified as adults.”

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[–] 37 points 10 months ago (4 children)

What a joke world we are living in. UK is getting too crazy with their "protection children" and introducing age limits by people providing their password and IDs. And chat control. And now this again, blocking these pictures would require massive privacy issues and closed source operating systems that will lock the user down like North Korea.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    What makes it worse is that the legislators are technologically illiterate. I don't expect politicians to be experts in everything, but I do expect them to listen to experts.

    Take chat control, for instance. Experts said that it would end up being harmful because the more legit sites would implement age controls, and that this would drive traffic to the less legit sites that aren't implementing such controls — sites where there's a much higher likelihood of harmful content like revenge porn, non-consensual porn, etc..

    And then when the completely predictable consequences of chat control arise, then the legislators have the audacity to be like shocked-pikachu.jpeg. And then they continue to ignore the experts and ask stupid questions like "how do we ban VPNs?"

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    200% agreed! They have no fking clue what the those "legislators" or "regulators" are doing at all.

    They have zero technical knowledge and they think you can breach encryption or something. Its a lot of incompetence and I hope they get punished by it.

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