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.
Hardly ideal. But I’m glad they’re at least accepting credit cards. Anything else like face verification, passports and national ID cards are crossing a line imo.
And you have to do it again every year. The law requires Apple to re-verify someone’s age annually, meaning South Korean users face a recurring obligation to confirm their identity just to keep accessing content they’ve already been verified to use.
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just in case you start aging backwards or something one year
Benjamin Button edge-case
Yea that absolutely sucks for the Koreans. Doesn’t make any sense unless maybe they’re trying to counter people selling their accounts or something?
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