UK pushing for on-device scanning for child abuse materials

Beats said:

laytech said:
Great idea and every country and every technology company should do this, including scanning emails.

Definitely. And including scanning our calls and installing cameras in our homes. Also scan our children just to “make sure” they aren’t being abused.

also the government should track our location and scan our vehicles and what we’re watching.

NO.

The whole thing is one pretty big prickly pear with no one-size-fits-all solution.

Facial recognition, tracking, profiling etc are already present in varying states of deployment in the west as legislation tries to keep pace.

I tend to err on the side of caution here and lean towards the right of total privacy, with the thinking that the criminal element remains a matter of the few and that there are better ways to 'out' them than by imposing society-wide pre-emptive checks on everyone. 

But I simply don't have the depth of knowledge on the intricacies of the matter to be able to form a solid opinion.