Apple and Google will soon be "encouraged" to build nudity-detection algorithms into their software by default, as part of the UK government's strategy to tackle violence against women and girls, reports the Financial Times. According to the report, Home Office officials want device operating systems to prevent any nudity from being displayed unless users can verify that they're adults through biometric checks or official ID.
  • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
    131·
    28 days ago

    how the fuck more deranged can it get over there?? fuck’s sake the UK seems worse than even China now with this shit.

  • Da Oeuf@slrpnk.netEnglish
    318·
    28 days ago

    I’m against this for the surveillance and meddling in people’s private lives but I’m also for it because a) kids are getting fucked up by the internet and, most of all, b) I like thinking about how MPs are probably oblivious to how burdensome this will be for google and apple to implement and the precedent it would set for every government being able to demand their own set of mods. It’s beautiful.

    • Flic@mstdn.social
      14·
      28 days ago

      @oeuf @G4Z I realise it’s never going to happen and there would be loads of other fallout I haven’t thought about, but I think governments *should* be allowed to. They can in every other field - our booze laws aren’t the same as the US’s, why should our dick pic laws be?
      It might de-monopolise the industry a bit.

      • G4Z@feddit.ukOPEnglish
        2·
        27 days ago

        Fuck that, I’m an adult paying for internet service.

        I don’t ever watch porn on a mobile, but it’s not the point. I don’t want my internet filtered and it’s a pure excuse to track and monitor us all at all times.

        • Flic@mstdn.social
          1·
          27 days ago

          @G4Z yeah in principle I agree but in practice “the internet” is about 4 companies. Until there’s more competition your data is being consolidated anyway. And the only way to get competition is to enforce regulation. I don’t think this is *good* regulation but I don’t see why we should have to do what Apple want just because they’re big.
          Interestingly this comes at the same time as the smartphone-free childhood thing is gaining steam so there’s probably a real-world solution anyway.