Messaging application company Signal is calling out the United Kingdom over its plans to implement age verification that the government says will “protect” children.
As part of a new policy that would ban social media for those in the U.K. under 16 years old, the government has also announced plans to force companies to infiltrate the phone libraries of every youngster — and soon every person within its jurisdiction who fails to upload ID.
‘Children deserve to be safe, protected, and nurtured. They do not deserve surveillance.’
Such is the shocking scope and speed of the latest amendment to the country’s Online Safety Act. Just last week, embattled and unpopular Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced content detection and blocking would only be turned by age verification check, a
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