UK iPhone users face over-18 age check to use services after update
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/25/apple-iphone-users-face-over-18-age-check-to-use-services-after-updateOpen linkView original on lemmy.caSyndicated from the fediverse. Read and engage on the original instance.
View original on lemmy.cahttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/25/apple-iphone-users-face-over-18-age-check-to-use-services-after-updateOpen linkView original on lemmy.ca
4 replies
Don't worry they'll never sell your data for ads like Google.
Meanwhile people literally can’t pay their electricity bills. Kier zero-privacy Starmer really prioritising the important things here. Time to look at graphene OS
As someone who has used grapheneos for a long-long time I would like to warn you. Once you go graphene it's hard to go back.
Whilst I would prefer this hadn’t happened, this is by far the best implementation I’ve seen so far. I appreciate not everybody has a credit card, but it’s much, much better to use a form of checking like that which has both an expiry date and a cancellation procedure, unlike a government ID which contains multiple pieces of information which you can’t really change (like your date of birth and a photo)