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Apple Expands Age Verification to Singapore & South Korea (reclaimthenet.org)
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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.

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[–] pycorax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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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[–] rem26_art@fedia.io 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

just in case you start aging backwards or something one year

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

Benjamin Button edge-case

[–] pycorax@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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?

[–] skankhunt42@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

My face as a service. Now offering Yearly subscriptions!