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.”

  • habitualcynic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    301·
    2 months 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.

  • ThePyroPython@lemmy.worldEnglish
    293·
    2 months ago

    Ahhhhhh just fuck off you useless cunts! Why don’t you fix the fact that we’ve got kids fucking starving in this country before worrying about if they’ve seen tits before they’re 18?!

    It’s dumb shit like this that is really pushing me to KMS once my mother has passed on. I can’t stand sharing oxygen with these morons.

      • ThePyroPython@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        2 months ago

        Look I’m just fed up with dealing with the slow burning of everything around me all because about a dozen people want extra zeros on their net worth and are tempting politicians to implement draconian laws with comparitivly miniscule bribes and I am obligated to spend 1/3 of my life and 2/3rds of my income satiating the desires of these bastards.

        Fuck em. I’m done. I want peace, permanent peace.

        • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          I fear it won’t be long before people decide to an hero in a spectacular way against their local fascist strongholds for the same reasons you outline.

          At some point, people are going to have nothing to lose and the desire to send a message to those in power.

          • IronBird@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            wont be long, we’re about to have a bubble-pop/crash to rival 2000-2008 combined, anyone with exposure to US markets gonna have a bad time

    • sleen@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      The only thing that’s important for them and their ego is hallucinating problems and making up solutions which benefit nobody.

      We live in an age where children and teens are getting their rights stripped because of said perceived “dangers” - real effort being done into something that will harm everybody. While realistic problems such as starvation and poverty get swept up under the rug.

    • TheHighRoad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Honest question, but have you guys in the UK always been dealing with the conservative morality police or is this a more recent thing? As an American, these people have been a constant detriment to a functioning society for… ever?

      My understanding is that such forces have been comparatively insignificant in your country, but “comparatively insignificant” probably says more about how things are here than anything else.

  • SaraTonin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    2 months 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.

  • Pacattack57@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    I will never buy a device that cockblocks me. I was talking shit about the nothing phone yesterday but I guess imma save up to buy it.

  • nostrauxendar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Can we have normal grocery prices first? Ban porn if you want, whatever, but please make our weekly shops affordable again. Any help on rent prices would be really nice, too.

    • sleen@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      We shouldn’t be living on the mercy of the bourgeois. Selling our freedom for bare essentials is what will drive us deeper into the slave life they have sincerely made for us.

      We may have freedom to sell now, but what happens when we run out of that freedom?

      • nostrauxendar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I was more commenting on how grocery prices are more important than internet porn to be honest, and how thoroughly the govt are letting the public down by focusing on puritanical and unimportant bs like porn when food is unaffordable

        I’m not sure the trade is internet porn for lower food prices, that isn’t what I was suggesting

  • pleaseletmein@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Remember when Tumblr banned porn, and implemented it so poorly that any photos with enough peach-ish or brown-ish colors got nuked for “displaying nudity”?