Major privacy alert for Android users.
For folks looking for exactly how the Android client side image scanning works or if it's present see the below.
A few folks are questioning if AI scanning like what Android is doing can be missused. The last time a similar feature was coming to Apple's iOS the media rightly described it as an extremely dangerous warrantless surveillance tool.
Regardless of what Android developers intended this client side scanner to do it will be enlisted by governments of the world to spy on you and break strong encryption.
And if you look at the current reporting on Apple and government requests for your private data...
"The encrypted data of millions of Apple users worldwide could reportedly be handed over to the government.
The Home Office has ordered Apple to let it access encrypted data stored in its cloud service, The Washington Post reported."
Demanding access to every last bit you have in any cloud is normal government stuff these days
@nullagent i sure am enjoying this exciting future where we get to play a never ending game of whack a mole disabling computer programs that spy on us