Scanning tech would turn every phone into a surveillance device ⚠️
UK Ministers may claim this is to stop children sharing intimate images.
But it means forcing every adult through a digital ID checkpoint and scanning all private images by default.
Once the infrastructure exists, it will be expanded.
It would award every future government and every tyranny across the globe a mechanism to pre-censor everything anyone does with their phone.
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Starmer gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children’s phones
Companies such as Apple and Google have until September to install software or face legislation, says PMRajeev Syal (the Guardian)
