Apple begins age checks in the UK with latest iOS update

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• XLE@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Remember when Apple used to fight surveillance?

  Now they’re jumping to comply with rules that don’t even exist yet.

  App stores and mobile operating systems are not covered by the Online Safety Act, but Ofcom, the UK media and telecoms regulator, welcomed Apple’s move on Wednesday.

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  • mbirth@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But this can be used as an argument for the OS to provide a simple and anonymous “yes, this user is an adult” flag instead of having to scan your face or ID on each and every website or for every browser app.

    Also, Apple is doing TV, Music, Podcasts, so they probably need the age check for one of those.

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    • XLE@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have my doubts (see responses for similar arguments about systemd adding an age field).

      • Authoritarian governments are not appeased by corporations that bend over backwards for them, and
      • Apple is in the business of making money, not keeping people private.

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    • belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Apple wont do that

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• sidebro@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Please, no more of this dystopian 1984 nightmare. I don’t want it.

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• Solumbran@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean what would you expect from a kingdom, other than to be primitively stupid?

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  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Plenty of countries are constitutional monarchies (e.g. the Scandinavian countries, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain), that nowadays has relatively little to do with what any of their government policies are… plenty of republics do plenty of primitively stupid things too…

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    • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Eh. Just because a primitively stupid thing has company does not make it more acceptable.

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