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.
England is turning into a really proper shithole country
American here…first time?
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
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”?
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.
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.
Gotta blur out those women’s ankles.
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)In the end it isn’t about the kids , what they want is control and tracking of everyone.
Of course it is, because nobody is willing to try and quantify or qualify the harms that seeing pornography has on a young person. It’s just “adult content” so we’ll go so far as to put VR headsets on everyone and ask them to verify their age or else they get a PG, low-polygon representation of reality!
Even if you’re morally opposed to the various things this addresses, it is so immensely concerning and unwise to want a corporation to have this much control over your actions, daily life, and liberty.
I don’t think enough people talk about that.
This has been very obvious to a lot of people since mobile devices were originally invented. The notion that you are sold a product that you “own” but is still 100% controlled by the vendor - anyone who thought about it for more than a second knew that it would eventually come to this. Of course, nobody gave even that tiny amount of thought about it. Or they were too naïve to think that a corporation could ever be evil.
I miss the times when spyware was considered uncoool. Mobile devices are the undoubtedly the worst invention of the information age. (And social media is probably the second worst.)
Literally. Why should a corporation control when you wank?
I get that, but I don’t even mean it in that sense. A corporation should not have any control over what I do whatsoever unless I’m their employee.
And even if you are an employee, only in work related stuff and during business hours, the rest, get out of my life.
I want them to ban porn so I feel dirty when I watch it.
I’m normally not one to kink shame, but I’m shaming you right now.
Shame me harder daddy
If there was a decent salary, I’d do it
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.
Gargle my balls, m’lord.
Block everything but calls and maps.
Kier Starmer is a nevernude. Pass it on.
I bet he takes a bath in a swimsuit
