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.”

  • Big Bolillo@mgtowlemmy.orgEnglish
    1·
    15 minutes 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
      1·
      7 minutes 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.

  • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    2 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)

  • SaraTonin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 hours ago

    They’re obviously going about it the wrong way, but this is inching towards the right way to go - keep age verification like biometric verification, encrypted and on-device. That’s a million times better than getting random pron sites to ask for your biometric data.

    If they’d started with this thought and then kept thinking from there, they could have ended up with something decent and effective, rather than the current shitshow.

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      5·
      2 hours ago

      Make it the software that comes with the device. So Samsung can install some child protection app and we just uninstall it. Anything bad ever happens on a kids phone? Why did the parents uninstall it?

      Make the parents take the responsibility.

  • Takashiro@lemmy.todayEnglish
    22·
    4 hours ago

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

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 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
    48·
    6 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
      41·
      2 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.)

  • Avicenna@programming.devEnglish
    361·
    9 hours ago

    that will quickly turn into “continuously monitor your users’ screens for what they are doing so you can detect nudity” where the real aim will ofcourse be surveillance and selling highly personal data. I don’t know about Apple but google will be all over it.