# The UK confirmed it will make Apple and Google scan everything people look at on phones and block nudity for users who don't verify their age. Please sign my petition against this and share it with as many people as possible **URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/the-uk-confirmed-it-will-make-apple-and-google-scan-everything-people-look-at-on-phones-and-block-nudity-for-users-who-dont-verify-their-age-please-sign-my-petition-against-this-and-share-it-with-as-many-people-as-possible/40686 **Category:** General **Created:** 2026-09-13T12:51:07Z **Posts:** 21 ## Post 1 by @SAVVYSCLUTTER — 2026-09-13T12:51:07Z > **[Petition: Do not require tech manufacturers to detect nudity content on devices](https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/776894)** > > Do not require tech manufacturers to scan content taken or viewed by users for 'nudity'. The government announced in June that if companies don’t take steps within 3 months to prevent children seeing nude content online, it will bring forward... Source: [UK to have world's strongest online child safety laws as government prepares legislation on nude images - GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-to-have-worlds-strongest-online-child-safety-laws-as-government-prepares-legislation-on-nude-images) --- ## Post 2 by @not-wittingly — 2026-09-13T21:21:23Z About time! Now we can finally stop crime! --- ## Post 3 by @_TrustyRocinante — 2026-09-14T02:30:33Z Hmm, I understand that a “free internet” (heavy quotation marks) comes with the risk of harmful content to children. But at what point can a government ensure that the “children are safe”? Assuming this goes ahead, and it’s wildly ineffective. What’s next? Cameras in every home to make sure children aren’t abused? That would surely reduce child abuse. It’s for the children! Wouldn’t it be more effective to look at why pornography has such a death-grip on society? Instead of just taking us through another prohibition era. Maybe we need to just go back to the family PC in the living room, and not allow 24/7 access to additive or harmful content on a tiny device. It’s not that kids cannot be trusted, but pornography and social media are designed to be extremely addictive, especially in younger teens. Anyway, this is obviously bad. I sympathise with the concerns though, but trading privacy for “safety” is a never ending road. --- ## Post 4 by @anonymous690 — 2026-09-14T14:09:58Z A part of me wants to put on my :clown_face: Joker :clown_face: mask and watch the world burn, because seriously, how stupid is this? If this law passes, it’s because of stupidity, and what does stupidity deserve but ridicule? But that’s only with the Joker mask on… Putting on my :bat: Batman :bat: mask, I must ask what stupidity needs. Stupidity needs help, so yes, I will sign the petition. What unfortunate times for people to be living in. --- ## Post 8 by @privacy.slouchy — 2026-09-14T15:45:56Z Foolishness abound There’s an obvious encroachment on a citizens right to privacy - I’m sure building a backdoor into your phone along with a program that scans its entire contents in perpetuity could _never_ be used by any bad actor for untoward purposes Edited: I misunderstood the stated goal of this software to be the detection of CSAM, but it’s just intended to be a broad nudity filter (to prevent kids from seeing boobies) --- ## Post 9 by @Regime6045 — 2026-09-15T11:56:31Z After the nudity detection has been confirmed to work, I’m sure the next step will be scanning (and reporting) of political symbols that the government deems “extremist” for whatever reason. Next, it will might be unapproved memes. --- ## Post 10 by @Jasongall — 2026-09-15T21:47:28Z This. Just another reason to drop the smart phone. --- ## Post 11 by @owl1 — 2026-09-15T22:03:00Z everyone should just switch to grapheneos … --- ## Post 12 by @fria — 2026-09-16T00:38:46Z > [@_TrustyRocinante](#): > > Cameras in every home to make sure children aren’t abused? They’re already putting cameras in cars to try and tell if you’re drunk or something, wouldn’t put it past them. [https://cybernews.com/security/eu-car-camera-monitoring/](https://cybernews.com/security/eu-car-camera-monitoring/) --- ## Post 13 by @nateb — 2026-09-18T17:05:42Z And then what happens Graphene has enough users that they decide to try to regulate it? IMO “just switch” is a very short-sighted solution. It only works while these platforms are so niche that the government doesn’t bother trying to address it. Once you get 25%+ of the population using it, the government will just refocus their efforts, and yes GOS likely won’t comply but that just means the government will make GOS illegal in that country. --- ## Post 14 by @Jasongall — 2026-09-18T17:34:12Z They don’t have to. Google (or Motorolla) can easily make changes that would do this. And whats more they wouldn’t have to go through any democratic process. That said, if you were gov and you had a GOS backdoor (or similar), would you publish it and get everyone to stop using GOS or would you use it as a honey pot? All these people with a false sense of security now using their secret phones ‘anonymously’. Seems a bit of a big gov / LE goldmine if you ask me. I would want to keep that grift for as long as I could milk it for. --- ## Post 15 by @overdrawn98901 — 2026-09-19T07:44:07Z This is like having an ant problem and deciding to burn your house down to solve it. It’s like they are asking for Microsoft Recall but then expecting the OS and every application to know how to handle hiding an image. Those in Parliament have no idea how tech works, or they do and want mass surveillance. Literally why aren’t we thinking of basic parental controls, sending some header like “no adult content”, and sites can filter that out. Idk, seems like there are simpler things to try first. --- ## Post 16 by @owl1 — 2026-09-20T02:10:33Z > [@nateb](#): > > IMO “just switch” is a very short-sighted solution. It only works while these platforms are so niche that the government doesn’t bother trying to address it. Once you get 25%+ of the population using it, the government will just refocus their efforts, and yes GOS likely won’t comply but that just means the government will make GOS illegal in that country. Well it’s open source … and open source software tends to be way harder to regulate than some closed source one, as ppl can just make their own forks of it etc. --- ## Post 17 by @Bluetacked — 2026-09-22T15:35:21Z Is this genuinely everything you look at though? Last I saw it was related to things like messaging and the camera roll? I’ve done the iOS verification anyway as Apple already had what they wanted from me to do it (credit card) so from what I understand that also exempts you from it. Not that it’s good, but still. Actual always-on monitoring would be a lot more troubling. Not least because you get situations like Discord when it thought grids were CSAM. Or maybe it sees someone young looking and gets the wrong idea and you get your life ruined for no reason. Or maybe you go on Twitter (if you’re lacking sense) and someone posts something that _is_ illegal and you didn’t even want to see it? I’ve heard what that Grok thing is like. Seems very unwise. --- ## Post 18 by @not-wittingly — 2026-09-22T21:19:54Z They just bully people into shutting down stuff they don’t like. Samurai wallet is the perfect example. --- ## Post 19 by @nateb — 2026-09-25T15:10:21Z Wasn’t that the whole big deal with the age verification laws in California and Colorado was they included FOSS and now they don’t? The government is clearly capable of regulating it, and sure you can always get around it but that doesn’t mean you won’t get in trouble for it. I can’t take weed from California to Texas and then go “but it was legal in California.” I’m in Texas and it’s not legal here, so I’m still in trouble. You can sit here and go “but my LInux distro was made in [place without age verification].” Congratulations, you live in [place with age verification] so you’re breaking the law. --- ## Post 20 by @Machkiel — 2026-10-03T14:16:04Z I am neither a parent nor a politician, but I think I would rather my child not see _violence_ than nudity. --- ## Post 21 by @QuickFalcon55 — 2026-10-04T11:59:47Z And I think it’s parents job to educate their kids on this topic and to use tools that block their kids access to nudity if they decided to go this path, not the government’s.