“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.”
We dare not tax you a single cent, but if you could be so kind as to do something, anything to explicit images, we really would be very grateful. If the a swers no, and anyone asks, please do letthem thin that it was a tough conversation where where jousted competitively for some time.
Literal 1984 shit
Wasn’t there recently some ruckus about a “new” android service google installed to android phones that was supposed to do this? It was all over the news but now I can hardly find a mention.
If the UK gets its way, operating systems like iOS and Android would “prevent any nudity being displayed on screen unless the user has verified they are an adult through methods such as biometric checks or official ID. Child sex offenders would be required to keep such blockers enabled.” The Home Office “has initially focused on mobile devices,” but the push could be expanded to desktops, the FT said. Government officials point out that Microsoft can already scan for “inappropriate content” in Microsoft Teams, the report said.
“The Home Office, which didn’t care much about verifying that its schemes were enforceable if they promised the potential of being able to announce a programme with the potential of winning social conservative votes, plunged ahead. It seemed like this new scheme would work marvelously and herald in a new era of Victorianism in the UK. That is, until a small boy by the name of Edward Woolsey in Liverpool discovered that he could magically manufacture a pornography-viewing device by taking any inexpensive, used Android device and tethering it to his phone. Word spread quickly among the youth.”
This reads as if the operating system should verify that the person sending/receiving the image is an adult. Wasn’t it going to check that the person in the photo is an adult, or do we already have that and I just missed it?
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It does seem weird to me that children have unrestricted access to pornography when they’re young now unless parents are tech savvy enough to do proper intervention. But idk I’m also old. If I wanted to access the internet I had to do it on a computer in the middle of the family living room until I was like 16.
You don’t even need to be tech savy to setup child lock on a phone, you just need to not be lazy. It’s all in the settings you don’t need to learn coding or anything just click few buttons and read what they do. If parents buys their 10 year old kid an 18+ game and then complains games are too violent it’s the parents fault.
And unfortunately this is the problem, parents not parenting and not taking accountablility for their own inactions. Its easier to blame tech instead of themselves.
Clicking a few buttons already does a lot but it also becomes complex quickly.
For example, gifs accessible via the keyboard can be unsuitable for smaller kids.
Same as it ever was. Once teenagers are old enough to look for nudity or sexualised content, they will get it. It’s just not paper mags hidden in bedroom furniture any more. The real problem is antisocial media giants and some advertisers pushing porn at kids who never looked for it and the government are scared of fakebook, google and friends, so won’t deal with that.
This sort of nonsense is a way to look like they’re doing something, while also making it massively easier for the spies, all under cover of “won’t somebody think of the children”.
