Apple’s identity verification demands are spreading across Asia. Starting in late March, the company expanded age verification requirements in both Singapore and South Korea, adding these countries to a growing list alongside the UK, where users must prove they’re adults before Apple lets them fully use their own devices.
This is probably just me, but I think any ire should be directed towards the governments that make these requirements.
I don’t get mad at truck manufacturers for building the capability to record speed in the vehicle if the government requires it (as many do).
IMHO Apple is intending to comply with the law of a democratic country. It’s hardly Apple’s fault that the law is what it is.
Not really. There is no age requirement for having an apple phone in the UK, and having ios verify my age does not help with identity stealing websites. So Apple aren’t doing this to comply with current law. And at least one government department advised their staff to ignore it.
Governments are the enforcement wing of Capitalism. So it’s both really.