Government seeks “nudity-detection algorithms” in iOS and Android, report says.

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.”

  • specialseaweed@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    251·
    14 hours ago

    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

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      11 hours ago

      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

  • Big Bolillo@mgtowlemmy.orgEnglish
    14·
    15 hours ago

    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.

    • buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      15 hours ago

      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.

      • Big Bolillo@mgtowlemmy.orgEnglish
        8·
        14 hours ago

        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.

          • Big Bolillo@mgtowlemmy.orgEnglish
            1·
            10 hours ago

            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.

  • pleaseletmein@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    11 hours ago

    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”?

  • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    16·
    16 hours ago

    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)

  • Takashiro@lemmy.todayEnglish
    372·
    19 hours ago

    In the end it isn’t about the kids , what they want is control and tracking of everyone.

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      17 hours ago

      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!

  • habitualcynic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    601·
    21 hours ago

    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.

    • namingthingsiseasy@programming.devEnglish
      51·
      17 hours ago

      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.)

  • madjo@feddit.nlEnglish
    5·
    14 hours ago

    I encourage UK’s government to sit on it and rotate. And Keir Starmer can go do one with rusty barbed wire.

  • Pacattack57@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    14 hours ago

    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.