this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2026
108 points (95.0% liked)

Technology

85245 readers
4812 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
108
UK’s Starmer gives Apple, Google 3 months to stop children sending nude images (www.scmp.com)
submitted 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
29 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Do they actually know how the technology works? They will have to scan everything inbound and outbound connections, basically managed devices.

Apple and Google have been given a three-month ultimatum to make it impossible for children to take, share or view nude images on their smartphones, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

Dude everyone is aware that Google scans google drive, it is not your own cloud naturally they can do what they want with it. If you store your data on someone else's server naturally they can see what you store. We are taking about devices you own with android and ios this is completely different.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-plans-to-stop-children-taking-sharing-or-viewing-nude-images Britain will become the first country in the world where it is impossible for children to take, share or view naked pictures on their devices.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Apple already has the capability to alert parents if a nude photo is detected. They do this detection on-device.

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/105069

[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Only for apple apps, it doesn't scan the entire device.

Messages, FaceTime, and AirDrop

Google has something similar I believe for Google Messages

Also they have to verify if the person using the device is a child if they want to implement this on the entire device.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

We are taking about devices you own with android and ios this is completely different.

How is it different you have absolutely no idea how this will be implemented. Currently IOS and Android default to cloud storage and we know how many users stray away from the defaults. Both devices already check your photos against the CSAM database and scan your local photos so you can search via tags like "cat" and it shows all cat photos. Who knows, it may be local AI and completely private.

[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago

I do agree that most people probably don't change the defaults, but I believe that apple stopped the scan for CSAM years ago on iCloud.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/08/tech/apple-csam-tool

Also you forgot to account for apps like Signal which store the photos encrypted in their own database.

This is not as simple as scanned photos, currently apple for example can do this locally on their own apps. The problem is apps like signal.