Signal warns UK's device-scanning proposal for child safety could enable mass surveillance
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Summary
Signal has strongly criticized the UK Prime Minister's proposal to compel tech companies to scan devices for nude images of children, arguing the technology would not protect children and instead poses serious risks. The encrypted messaging platform warns that the required device-level scanning mechanism could be repurposed for mass surveillance, censorship, and state-sponsored monitoring of all citizens' communications. Signal describes the proposal as dangerous and dystopian, asserting it endangers everyone rather than keeping children safe.
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'It endangers us all,' the encrypted messaging platform said, adding that the mechanism required to implement it would be 'dangerous.'
Signal argues that the proposed technology could at some point be repurposed to enable state-sponsored surveillance of all citizens' comms, or used as a mass censorship tool.
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