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

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• NarrativeBear@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is not a “age check”, it’s a identity verification.

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• daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The fuck is going on over there?

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We have a government that thinks the population needs to be parented through authoritarian means. The don’t understand that even though their intentions might be benign, they are still building the infrastructure of an authoritarian state.

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    • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You’re giving them too much credit. Their intentions are not benign and they are the authoritarian state

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  • Tarambor@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Apple is taking the piss. There is no requirement in the OSA that it age checks be done at device level.

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  • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The Brits want what America is having

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  • Libb@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Maybe UK citizen have not yet realized how badly they screwed themselves with Brexit, and they need a second shot of an even sadder reality? Or maybe they’ve just given up already?

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    • Wander@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Brits are really weird in the sense they think everything about technology should be controlled to some terrorist and shit. They have no worry about what that level of informational control could do.

      1984 should be read in school.

      There are only 2 things British people care about 1 is GPS tracking on cars. People hate hate hate the idea that they cannot speed, doesn’t matter how many lives it saves they are a good driver and they are always late. Second is ID cards for some really weird reason, passports are find but having an optional ID card is a massive no. I even spoke to people about it and said okay how would it work in practise, what are you scared of? “Well the corrupt police could arrest me and make me show them ID and I couldn’t refuse.” “So let’s say a corrupt police office just came in now arrested you and took you wallet. Are you telling me they couldn’t work out who you are from what’s in you wallet right now?” “Well they could but I don’t NEED all that, I could just be carrying cash” “But you aren’t and you never are”

      People hate the idea of it. But government want to spy on your conversations, images, location, contacts, what you read, porn. Oh yea go ahead if it means people don’t have to turn on the adult filter on the WiFi or on the phone data which come as standard then go ahead. Easy.

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    • daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Why did they want to leave the EU anyway?

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    • Tarambor@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This has nothing to do with Brexit. And I’m struggling to find anything in my daily life where Brexit has had a negative effect. Strangely enough when I ask people how it’s affecting their daily life nobody seems to actually come up with an example that has anything to do with Brexit. The most common one is having to use passports to travel to the EU but we always had to do that because the UK wasn’t part of Schengen and I can only assume those who bring up that example have never ever left the UK.

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Only moments before the world ends will mankind look back and realize that “won’t someone think of the children” was the thing that did us in.

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  • Virtvirt588@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Like all the previous fascist waves, they all centre around discrimination. It is about taking advantage of the societies inherent discriminatory behavior, in the past this was mainly racism - in this case however, its ageism.

    It is the fact that anyone young is treated as a subclass citizen or in fact not even a person. ID laws are examples of fascist unjust laws which consequently invalidate the freedom and speech of young people. Our society rewards infantilization of others, and it shows how truly ignorant and adulcentrist we all are.

    Finally, I don’t believe all of mankind will look back, as all the cases with fascism is “ignorance is strength”, so tracing the problem back to our societal ageism and discrimination will only be done by a select bunch.

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• Tarambor@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Upon updating their device software, users will be faced with a message which says: “UK law requires you to confirm you are an adult to change content restrictions.”

  There is no such requirement in UK law that it age checks have to be done on a device level.

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• mjr@infosec.pub ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨30⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      The ID scheme doesn’t require user identification on a device, which would be superfluous.

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    • Tywele@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      As a German not having a mandatory government ID is so weird to me.

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• brokenwing@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  But… but… its for “children”

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• Antaeus@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If this happens in Denmark/EU. I will say f**k convenience and go graphene, even though it will make my like more complicated

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  • daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I use Graphene, it’s not that much harder than stock Android. I highly recommended it.

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    • Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But with less ads?

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    • Antaeus@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In Denmark it is close to impossible to live without iOS or bloated Android.

      You need a MFA for verification. Doesn’t work on graphene. Alternatively, a physical code viewer is needed to function. Nobody has cash anymore. If not card, people transfer via mobilepay (venmo like). Mobilepay doesn’t work on graphene. We don’t get physical mail anymore and the apps to view digital mail doesn’t work on graphene. Banking apps, guess… most don’t work on graphene. Soon, we are forced to have an app for public transport if you are a commuter, like I am. I have very little hopes that it will work on graphene.

      I was running calyx until mobilepay stopped working. But life got to inconvenient and filled with daily frustrations. Now I get frustrated over iOS. The Android on pixels steal too much data.

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  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So you’re using iPhone now but are anonymous to apple? You didn’t register any accounts on your phone or in the AppStore with your email or credit card data?

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    • Antaeus@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Where is this coming from? I never said that.

      I am under no illusion of that. Since google is an advertisement company I tend to trust the other company a bit more. Still the plague or cholera

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  • VonReposti@feddit.dk ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Way ahead of ya. Graphene is mostly working well. Some small issues like MitId not working due to Play Integrity but hopefully the UnifiedAttestation and focus on removing big tech dependence will solve that.

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  • PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For me as well. I’ve just ordered a used Pixel 10 Pro so I’m going to give it a try. One inconvenience is that my current phone uses an eSIM which means that I cannot simply swap over and back if desired.

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    • mjr@infosec.pub ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Why not? I thought swapping was promoted as a benefit of eSIM.

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• Quicky@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I installed this last night and was presented with a warning screen saying that I’d have to provide ID, then the following screen basically said “Nah, you’re good bro, we don’t need your ID”.

  I’m hoping that was as a result of my Apple ID having been set up many years ago, rather than them having seen my camera roll and concluded that this guy is clearly old as fuck.

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  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or they have your credit card info?

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    • Quicky@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well they do, but the actual reason given on the subsequent screen was down to when my Apple ID was set up.

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• unabart@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m in Germany, installed this update on my iPad, but have not seen any mention of an ID yet. 🤷‍♂️

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  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Probably because Germany doesn’t have to follow laws passed in UK.

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    • unabart@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Perhaps it was the “first in Europe” part that threw me for a loop.

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