Innerworld@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoApple 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 pressurewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square42linkfedilinkarrow-up1112arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.worldprivacy@lemmy.ml
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minus-squarewewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoNo, they gave the government another reason for a mandatory government id scheme. Something deeply unpopular with a large part of the population, but that Starmer is devoted to.
minus-squareTywèle@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoAs a German, not having a mandatory government ID seems so weird to me.
minus-squarewewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoI don’t like to bring it up, but it was the Germans that convinced us to get rid of them.
No, they gave the government another reason for a mandatory government id scheme. Something deeply unpopular with a large part of the population, but that Starmer is devoted to.
As a German, not having a mandatory government ID seems so weird to me.
I don’t like to bring it up, but it was the Germans that convinced us to get rid of them.