Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Apple 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 pressure — Move follows pressure from government on smartphone makers to do more to protect children online
This won’t protect children much, but it will sure as hell help the govt. arrest people who dare to like the wrong tweet or post a meme that’s deemed offensive.
The Internet was supposed to be liberating and allow everyone easy access to information. Except it’s becoming a walled garden of disinformation.
Anyone wondering why no data minimising technology is used that does not link your actual identity to a verification of actually being over 18? I guess not.
Why would they want it to be anonymous when implementing it this way tells them exactly who does what on the internet?
well, exactly.