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This is what I guessed the other day when a post here didn't clarify what the censorship meant.
While I'm not a fan of this stupid regulation, it doesn't sound like being the armageddon that turns e2ee into ashes.
(Given that Signal doesn't like it, I might be wrong though.)
As long as we trust, say, Signal, it will possibly be able to do the scan without sending a good chunk of the image data that the user is sending. URLs can be hashed before sending it to the scanner.
The remaining piece for privacy is to use open source and to guarantee that the binaries are free of modification from the original. This problem always existed on the Apple ecosystem btw.
The images that are flagged by such scanning, local or server side, will have to be manually verified to avoid false persecution. Someone will have to look at the private images you've sent that might get flagged.
These systems have huge margins of error and are incredibly inaccurate, so there will be a significant task in manually verifying everything. And do you trust some government random employee (or just the departments general IT practices or ability to not be hacked) with not leaking your nudes or personal images? I sure as hell don't.
And even if this is handled perfectly and all government employees are super super honorable standup citizens that never do anything slightly wrong ever...There are still malicious governments that persecute minorities, I doubt they will handle these backdoors in digital privacy very well.
They say they the images are merely matched to pre-determined images found on the web. You're talking about a different scenario where AI detects inappropriate contents in an image.
It will detect known images and potential new images...how do you think it will the potential new and unknown images?
Source? Does the law require that? That's not my impression.
Literally the article linked in the OP...
Article 10a, which contains the upload moderation plan, states that these technologies would be expected “to detect, prior to transmission, the dissemination of known child sexual abuse material or of new child sexual abuse material.”
My bad. But that phrasing is super stupid, honestly. What company would want to promise to detect new child sex abuse material? Impossible to avoid false negatives.