Meta wants millions of Britons to submit age checks on iPhone and Android, but how would this work?

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Millions of Britons should prove they're over 18 with strict age checks built into the operating systems that power iPhone and Android smartphones, Facebook parent company Meta has urged the UK Government.

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Executives from the Californian company, which also owns WhatsApp and Instagram, met with senior officials from the Labour Government and Ofcom to discuss its approach to child safety ahead of the results of the ongoing consultation into an outright social media ban for under-16s in the UK.Meta executives argued that age verification should be handled by the operating system on the device not platforms like Instagram and Facebook, The Daily Telegraph reports.

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Under the proposed system, Apple's iOS and Google's Android software will verify the age of the device owner and send a signal that can be double-checked by Facebook and other Meta-owned apps using its own verification systems.In a blog post published in early May, Meta argued that age verification by the operating system...

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