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.
OP do you know how technology works? Apple and google already do this to a degree. We’ve seen people get reported to the police for taking pictures of their own kids nude because photos are scanned on upload to icloud or google’s photos. This isnt new its an expansion of existing norms
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Strictly by the description it should include websites too, and would have to be extremely low level to prevent viewing.
Also Nintendo should probably be concerned at how widely the law is written for the DS