You raise a good point, and it’s that Facebook could be doing this for benevolent reasons. But on the flip side, let’s say they are pressured by a government who wants to know about users messaging each other about abortion.
What would prevent them from being pressured into turning their client-side abuse material scanning into politically motivated client-side scanning with something as simple as a “red flag word” list update, which could be pushed exclusively to users in a particular country or state?
You raise a good point, and it’s that Facebook could be doing this for benevolent reasons. But on the flip side, let’s say they are pressured by a government who wants to know about users messaging each other about abortion.
What would prevent them from being pressured into turning their client-side abuse material scanning into politically motivated client-side scanning with something as simple as a “red flag word” list update, which could be pushed exclusively to users in a particular country or state?