Mandatory adult age verification
Mandatory adult age verification
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Condi

Original Poster:

19,967 posts

197 months

Yesterday (11:43)
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/08...

It appears the government are enforcing mandatory age verification with software at root/OS level which will prevent kids from taking/sending/accessing nude photos. Apple already have something which requires age verification but Android doesn't yet have anything similar.

I've no idea how effective it will be, but no doubt simply uploading an image of a driving licence from google images will be enough to convince the phone you're 45 years old, whether you're in fact 15, 25 or 45...

dundarach

6,107 posts

254 months

Yesterday (11:51)
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Given the fact that Bing (apparently) only seems to list none blocked porn websites (so I'm told), I'm not holding out much hope smile

thetapeworm

13,510 posts

265 months

Yesterday (11:56)
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27 pages of similar discussion here:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

There's more that can be done to protect kids but most of this stuff doesn't seem to be it.