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Comment on Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure

mjr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

And Apple don’t accept passports as ID, so complaints are rolling in from non-drivers without current credit cards, who tend to be younger and in big cities. Apple just took a big shot at their foot.

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wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
No, they gave the government another reason for a mandatory government id scheme. Something deeply unpopular with a large part of the population, but that Starmer is devoted to.

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- ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The ID scheme doesn’t require user identification on a device, which would be superfluous.
  
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- Tywele@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  As a German not having a mandatory government ID is so weird to me.
  
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  - wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I don’t like to bring it up, but it was the Germans that convinced us to get rid of them.
    
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    mjr@infosec.pub ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    And now you have once, do you think you’ve got away with it, Basil?
    
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