Starmer’s social media restrictions will mean the government can spy on every phone

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In practice, the government is demanding that Apple install on-device AI nudity-detection software at the operating system level for iOS and that Google do the same for Android.

This would involve constantly scanning the camera viewfinder, screen output, livestream, and stored files, and blocking or blurring nudity in real time.

This amounts to surveillance technology on https://www.cityam.com/starmers-social-media-restrictions-will-mean-the-government-can-spy-on-every-phone/">[...]

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