Their Online Safety Act is stupid ever since it was enforced last year as that has done nothing except for making people bypass it entirely

It's had worse outcomes than that. People who do decide to follow the law are having their IDs stolen and leaked and the UK gov (and others worldwide) don't care. They designed and forced on us a law a 'Safety' Act that does nothing but actively compromise people's safety. I realise I'm preaching to the crowd here but if this shit doesn't destroy what's left of people's faith in government then I don't know what will

Doesn't even need to be intentional when there are virtually no consequences for leaking that info

I still remember the Mozilla Internet Application Suite before the browser part was spun off into Firefox and the email into Thunderbird. Some of their moves have been disappointing but I'll still never use Chrome

You think this isn't coming to other devices? Google will presumably add this to Android and apps will follow suit by looking to the OS to verify your age so other forks will probably have to add it. Linux on smartphones is dead in the water so what's the alternative?

From what I've read online it's going to be worldwide

This has been well known for decades, and is by design. Agencies and landlords get to collect and sell any data they want, and the renters are told to suck it up or be homeless

All of this was done in close collaboration with the local police, despite these uses violating a 2022 ordinance that placed narrow limits on the use of facial recognition

If companies and law enforcement aren't going to follow laws then why should citizens? A bit of coordinated vandalism would combat this shit

This is pretty much every government's response to a big sensitive data leak. Draft laws requiring companies to collect even more of it to be stolen

There's a reason prices for everything increase after they announce inflation is up

See people here want gambling ads banned, but the PM has ties to gambling lobby groupa so the gov won't touch it. But when it comes to laws nobody wants like giving cops more invasive surveillance power the government can suddenly expedite them at record speed. We live in a fake democracy

I get where you're coming from but it was all the result of user requests. People were asking Proton to make more services and apps for years

They'll never stop trying until it gets passed