[worldsayshi]

> Is scanning mandatory? - No — voluntary.

Voluntary for whom? The service provider? Can I opt out of getting scanned?

> Does it touch encrypted messages? - No. End-to-end encrypted communications were never scanned but providers could deploy client-side scanning under this law.

So it circumvents e2e encryption?

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How would these laws prevent me from just side loading my own open source client?

[cbg0]

> How would these laws prevent me from just side loading my own open source client?

They do not.

[xiphias2]

You need open hardware and open software at that point and you won't be able to use government identification as they depend on closed source parts of the Android ecosystem. Also you need identification for side loading apps at some point.

Non of these laws stop you from opting out of surveillance, but altogether it gets so hard that at some point you get more suspicious and tracked if you do all this than if you don't do any of these.

[cbg0]

Assuming these concerns were real you could just turn the app into a website.