Innerworld@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoApple 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 pressurewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square73linkfedilinkarrow-up1257arrow-down12file-text
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minus-squarewewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 days agoNo, 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.
minus-squareThomasWilliams@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoThe ID scheme doesn’t require user identification on a device, which would be superfluous.
minus-squareTywèle@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-22 days agoAs a German, not having a mandatory government ID seems so weird to me.
minus-squarewewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 days agoI don’t like to bring it up, but it was the Germans that convinced us to get rid of them.
minus-squaremjr@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoAnd now you have once, do you think you’ve got away with it, Basil?
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.
The ID scheme doesn’t require user identification on a device, which would be superfluous.
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?