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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.
The fuck is going on over there?
Apple is taking the piss. There is no requirement in the OSA that it age checks be done at device level.
The Brits want what America is having
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.
You're giving them too much credit. Their intentions are not benign and they are the authoritarian state
I think some are idiots with benign intentions and some aren't. Your average labour back bencher is an idiot.
From a distance, it all seems very intentional to me.
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?
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.
Why did they want to leave the EU anyway?
Most of us didn’t….half the country voted, and a quarter voted leave, having believed the lies of snake oil salesman Nigel Farage and one or two others that the EU was screwing us over somehow, and its “unelected official” weren’t helping. Plus some other bollocks about migrants.
Most of us didn’t….half the country voted, and a quarter voted leave
And less than a quarter voted to stay. Also it's only a quarter if you include babies and others ineligible to vote.
To be fair I never heard a baby ask to leave the EU, so I can only assume they were happy with the status quo
Beside the handful of real absolute morons/racists/haters (we have similar people in the EU too, they are far from being exclusive to Britain), I consider this an impressive scam that went somewhat completely wrong.
Those promoting Brexit never intended to really leave the EU, that was a mean to grab more power by manipulating the... lesser informed population, and they were indeed quite surprised the day those people, and then a few more with them, actually voted for that Brexit scam. Making them the proud leader of something that was probably never meant to happen. Hence their absolute lack of preparation for it and the shit show that followed for years.
It's also a demonstration of why a failing public educative system is fatal to a working democracy. Uneducated citizen can't vote with their brains, only with their guts. And we all know that what usually comes out of guts is not ideas, right?
Something we can also witness happening in the USA, quite obviously, but also in most countries in the EU even in my dear own France. Sadly.
But... but.. its for "children"
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.
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.
As a German, not having a mandatory government ID seems so weird to me.
I don't like to bring it up, but it was the Germans that convinced us to get rid of them.
And now you have once, do you think you've got away with it, Basil?
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.
Or they have your credit card info?
Well they do, but the actual reason given on the subsequent screen was down to when my Apple ID was set up.
Looks like they do it either way.
If this happens in Denmark/EU. I will say f**k convenience and go graphene, even though it will make my like more complicated
I use Graphene, it's not that much harder than stock Android. I highly recommended it.
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.
But with less ads?
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?
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
Because if Apples knows your identity why would you switch phones to avoid giving apple your identity? I'm using Graphene so having to register some account on my phone would be a change for me. If you already have corporate account set on your phone what would this change for you?
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.
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.
Why not? I thought swapping was promoted as a benefit of eSIM.
I’ll admit I am speaking from ignorance. I haven’t really worked with eSIM phones in this manner and assumed you couldn’t simply swap them like physical SIM cards.
Can you swap an eSIM to a phone that doesn't use eSIM?
I think you can get eSIM adapters for phones without one built in, but I've not bothered yet, so I might have misunderstood.
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.
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.
Most Apple accounts need a credit card attached. If kids have a phone then it will need a credit card. As you need to be 18 in many countries to get a credit card then for kids to use a phone they will need the parents card. I fail to see how this helps age verification.
That’s just not true, at least in the UK. Debit cards are the standard here, not credit, and they don’t have the same age restrictions.
That's because these ghouls don't actually care how old you are, they just wanna know what you're doing at all times.
Nah, they just want money, is all.
You think they don't already? Can you even use an iPhone without an Apple ID? I'm fairly sure you couldn't install any apps without one, and if you've ever paid for anything they definitely already have your real data.
Doesn't mean it has the user's ID.
They know the user's identity - they have the name and home address on the credit card used to pay.
If you mean "it doesn't have the user's ID card", well that's true. But that's mainly because the UK doesn't actually have an ID card or national ID database/reference number, so NO operator in the UK has "the user's ID" in that sense.
The person paying might not be the user, is what I mean. I'm thinking of phones given to younger family members.
that helps surveillance
I’m in Germany, installed this update on my iPad, but have not seen any mention of an ID yet. 🤷♂️
Probably because Germany doesn't have to follow laws passed in UK.
