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.”
Looks like click-bait. It is a proposal from by one old fart in the 800 member House of Lords. Not a serious Bill.
Read this thread…
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1pnsawo/comment/nubbach/
Having said that, it is important to nip such ideas in the bud.
Puritanical bullshit… what the fuck.
*It’s like tumblr banning nudity, which basically came down to banning any picture containing nipples. Except like, for a whole backwards country.
Man, I was at tumblr when this was being implemented. It was so fucking stupid and everyone knew it.
Remember when Tumblr banned porn, and implemented it so poorly that any photos with enough peach-ish or brown-ish colors got nuked for “displaying nudity”?
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England is turning into a really proper shithole country
American here…first time?
I encourage UK’s government to sit on it and rotate. And Keir Starmer can go do one with rusty barbed wire.
I will never buy a device that cockblocks me. I was talking shit about the nothing phone yesterday but I guess imma save up to buy it.
As the dad of a teenager, I am “encouraging” him to put nudity blocking systems on his phone.
oh shit would you look at that i just taught him how to go around me and hide his behavior better im sure there will be no future consequences whatsoever
The important thing isn’t that your kids don’t see porn, it’s that they feel the requisite amount of shame and never talk to you about their sexuality.
Also, it’s one more thing we can criminalize in a surveillance state. So now we can more easily extort horny people with fines and prison if we feel the need
Block everything but calls and maps.
Why, yes I would like to get literally cockblocked by Google and Apple. Thanks UK! /s
Client side scanning, it’s already happening in android running google services there are two apps automatically installed which at least I know scan photos in the device. One is android system saftycore and the other I can’t remember the name.
Thanks for the info. Didn’t know that shit was on my phone. Deleted.
If you happen to remember the second app name, please post it.
The other one is Android System Key Verifier, for that I’m not totally sure it’s malware but as it have access to your end to end encrypted keys and the way it’s secretly installed seems shady to me. Looks like a way for Google to intercept end to end encrypted messages for me.
Tyvm. Uninstalled
Np mate here to help ✌️👍
Is it safe to remove if I use Google messages often?
I’m not totally sure I barely use Google Messages except for verification codes, I prefer to uninstall it preventing it from having any access to my local end to end encrypted keys for other apps. but it’s up to you I guess.
I think it’s time to throw my phone in the river.
Please don’t, our rivers are polluted enough as it is
Throw it on Stamer’s head, at least you give it one last food use.
Year of the linux phone
If they make it obligatory,
sudo systemctl disable uk-spyware(I know that in that case it would be illegal to disable, solvable with
sudo systemctl enable uk-spyware-spoof)They’re obviously going about it the wrong way, but this is inching towards the right way to go - keep age verification like biometric verification, encrypted and on-device. That’s a million times better than getting random pron sites to ask for your biometric data.
If they’d started with this thought and then kept thinking from there, they could have ended up with something decent and effective, rather than the current shitshow.
Make it the software that comes with the device. So Samsung can install some child protection app and we just uninstall it. Anything bad ever happens on a kids phone? Why did the parents uninstall it?
Make the parents take the responsibility.
Gargle my balls, m’lord.
