Mandatory adult age verification

[Condi]

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]

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

[thetapeworm]

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.

[mattley]

It's all about having an agent on the device that captures everything before it's encrypted and transmitted.

[camel_landy]

thetapeworm said:

There's more that can be done to protect kids...

Yeah, it called parents doing their job and being parents, rather than absolving all responsibility to a nanny state.

M

[Xenoous]

camel_landy said:

Yeah, it called parents doing their job and being parents, rather than absolving all responsibility to a nanny state.

M

Absolutely this. While these corporations absolutely should never get a pass, removing the responsibility from parents and placing it elsewhere does nothing to improve the standard on parenting. I've grown up on digital media (now mid thirties) and work in it, the internet now is no worse than it was back then, however it is more easily accessible (phones, tablets etc).

Parents, be better. Nanny state, F right off.

[Frane Selak]

mattley said:

It's all about having an agent on the device that captures everything before it's encrypted and transmitted.

In the past when we wanted a phone to do different stuff to what it could do we used to pop along to XDA developers and download and install a custom ROM fairly simply. Would that not be the case in the future to get a ROM that specifically blocks any spyware like this.

[Monsterlime]

That is now largely limited to GrapheneOS and Pixel devices. It is what I am moving to.