Is the problem in question consent over how my phone works?
We're fast approaching the "yes it's bad for privacy but think of the kids" threshold between this and client-side scanning. Both can be used as instruments of blackmail from a sufficiently motivated threat actor.
At most I could accept if this were a feature for children’s accounts that parents could choose to enable. I’m not sure I’m Ok with even that though because slippery slopes quite often start with “ think of the children”.
Audio/Video/Chat services should probably be demanded(maybe even required by law) to be dumb pipes that never filter ANYTHING.
This was my first thought too. US culture is weirdly prudish about nudity. I guess it comes from their flavour of Christianity? That’s fine of course, but they foist this on the whole world. ;(
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Of course. And we have to trust that it is true and won't change depending on country and/or target.
For all you know they could very well be sending back embeddings or have it trigger recording.
Like the social media moderators who get exposed to mountains of horrifying content.
And the other half probably doesn't tell them.
We're fast approaching the "yes it's bad for privacy but think of the kids" threshold between this and client-side scanning. Both can be used as instruments of blackmail from a sufficiently motivated threat actor.
Audio/Video/Chat services should probably be demanded(maybe even required by law) to be dumb pipes that never filter ANYTHING.
https://metro.co.uk/2025/03/10/this-european-beach-enforcing...
Aha
- i'd love if a Trump image or video was replaced by a talking hamburger that simply said "Rabble rabble rabble"
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