[kfprt]

It won't be long until these type of systems are mandated. Combined with a hardware root of trust it's not inconceivable that modifying your hardware not to report home will also be made a crime. It never stops with CSAM either, pretty soon it's terrorism and whatever vague new definition they use.

The focus on CSAM seems extremely hypocritical when authorities make such little effort to stop ongoing CSA. I would encourage everyone to research the Sophie Long case. Unless there is image or video evidence the police make little effort to investigate CSA because it's resource intensive.

[stjohnswarts]

Total surveillance is definitely the end goal of policing forces. It's in their very nature of getting their job done (what better way to catch criminals than a computer constantly scanning every move of everyone) and why people need to always push back against these "think of the children" scapegoats they use to get their foot in the door and get more control.

[zimpenfish]

> It never stops with CSAM either, pretty soon it's terrorism and whatever vague new definition they use.

But PhotoDNA has been scanning cloud photos (Google, Dropbox, Microsoft, etc.,) to detect CSAM content for a decade now and this "pretty soon it's terrorism" slippery slope hasn't yet manifested, has it?

If the slope was going to be slippery, wouldn't we have seen some evidence of that by now?

[randomhodler84]

Don’t be so naive. It took less than 3 years for dns blocking to go from csam to copyright infringement. It always was about building censorship infra. I’ve been fighting internet censorship for over a decade and it only gets worse and worse every generation of technology. I want to throw all this government spyware away. Dystopia landed a long time ago.