The UK government is like: “submit ID first before you use iPhone”, like WTF? As apparently, they are considering on making that the default way to unlock a cellphone whilst spying on you (like they already are) keeping tabs on what apps you’re currently using, have downloaded or purchases made online.
Their Online Safety Act is stupid ever since it was enforced last year as that has done nothing except for making people bypass it entirely (like there’s cases of game characters used to circumvent age verification & facial scans) so I’ll assume the same will happen with this (fake ID’s) just to unlock iPhones.
They are just doing the bidding of advertisers. This is all about verifying there is an actual human so advertisers will continue paying companies like Google.
Meanwhile people are debating about child safety. Propaganda successful!
yep, the major lobbying force in favour of these laws is Meta/Facebook
https://lwn.net/Articles/1062779/