Authoritarian Island makes another blunder.
Seriously what the hell this clearly isn’t about helping kids and something much scarier.
Starmer gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children’s phones
Submitted 6 days ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
tankplanker@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Its an absolutely awful way of tackling the problem of sexting and cross sharing of nudes.
Zero chance this won’t misidentify content, be easy to bypass, and massively extended.
Does anyone seriously believe that the type of content it looks for won’t be expanded in what it searches for, and that it will cover adult devices over time?
Thats before you look at jt as a way for mass role out of device level identity verification dressed up as age verification.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
The UK is returning to a society pre-Ulysses where freedom of expression is heavily censored with a blunt fist of government overreach.
ulysseswhiskey.com/…/sir-archibald-bodkin-and-the…
This isn’t anything new, it is England regressing to a reactionary violent conservatism it knows well.
grue@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Its an absolutely awful way of tackling the problem of sexting and cross sharing of nudes.
Almost as if that’s just an excuse and not the actual goal. 🤔
grue@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Authoritarian Island
That’s “Airstrip One” to you, prole!
flamingos@feddit.uk 6 days ago
The ultimatum comes a month after Jess Phillips quit her post as safeguarding minister claiming that Starmer had failed to introduce changes to halt the ability of children in the UK to take naked images of themselves.
I don’t see the issue with kids being able to take naked photos of themselves? Like I get that’s the fear is that they share this with adults exploiting them, but the Online Safety Act already requires platforms to limit sharing images in sensitive contexts (like DMs). You could also require just require phones for children to not have cameras, but this isn’t actually about children taking nude images of themselves.
“For too long, people have been told that [children sharing explicit images] is simply the price of modern tech – that nothing could be done. That government is powerless. That parents just have to accept it,” he said.
Just don’t buy you kid a phone? Or just get them a phone plan without data? Parents are anything but powerless.
“That is why today, I am calling on tech companies operating in this country to introduce vice controls that prevent children from sending and receiving sexually explicit images. Because this is not an impossible challenge.
You solution is literally technologically impossible, though. There does not exist, and likely will never exist, an algorithm that can identify explicit images from non-explicit ones with fault tolerances approaching acceptable.
The announcement has been driven by an explosion in child sexual abuse referrals. The UK’s National Crime Agency receives 1,700 referrals every week. Last year nine in 10 child abuse images were generated by children, many of whom had been tricked or blackmailed by abusers they had met on the internet.
These are social issues for which technology alone cannot solve. Tech won’t save us and it can’t govern for you, Mr Starmer.
The proposal is designed to sit alongside the Online Safety Act, which requires companies to have processes for removing material that is illegal or harmful to children.
Bullshit, this literally works against the OSA’s regime. At least with the OS age stuff happening elsewhere, you don’t also have to upload your ID to every website that might host a nipple.
I’m all up for legislation requiring certain standards from system parental controls. My take on the OSA’s age verification regime is that it should just be an API that tells apps/websites if parental controls are enabled. But this is about the most blatant trojan horse I’ve ever seen.
unglueclass23@programming.dev 6 days ago
This is WILD. They’re not even discussing that “children” may have the same kind of right to privacy as adults.
And by “children” it’s everyone under 18. So 17, 16 ,15 yr olds will all get their photos scanned and they will do their best to prevent them from watching porn 🤣
echodot@feddit.uk 5 days ago
I supposed it will at least increase tech literacy rates. Installing a VPN isn’t actually that hard and it’s a useful life skill. I fully support labour in there efforts to further incentivise the learning of IT skills.
Dave8008@feddit.uk 5 days ago
It’s nothing to do with protecting kids. It’s about having access to communications before they can be encrypted. It is surveillance dressed as concern for kids
58008@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Google: ok i just go into settings and change 1 to 0 next to ‘kiddie porn allowed???’ hope that help
grue@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Why does pinko commie Kier Starmer hate property rights?
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
The USSR would have loved to have this level of surveillance that even Orwell couldn’t dream of.
Babalugats@feddit.uk 6 days ago
Not just the USSR
-https://www.npr.org/2006/01/18/5161811/cointelpro-and-the-history-of-domestic-spying