US EditionUK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones
The UK Home Office aims to protect children by encouraging Apple and Google to implement device-level nudity detection requiring adult age verification to prevent harms.
- British Home Office officials plan to urge Apple and Google to add default nudity-detection algorithms on iOS and Android devices soon, protecting children from nude photos, the Financial Times reports.
- After the Online Safety Act took effect earlier this year, officials link the move to sex offenders grooming children and teens and blackmailing victims.
- The proposal would require a one-off age verification to Apple or Google, with OS blocks using biometric checks or official ID, and family safeguards like blurring images and notifying iCloud Family parents.
- Tech companies could push back, recalling past controversies like Apple’s 2021 CSAM scanning backlash it dropped; officials plan to target mobile devices initially, possibly extending to desktops but not mandating controls for devices sold in the UK.
- Privacy experts argue critics call system-wide scanning a privacy 'non-starter' while legal history shows industry lobby groups sued Texas over its app-store law and the U.S. App Store Accountability Act emerged.
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