#clientsidescanning — Public Fediverse posts
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HEADSUP: Ofcom *tonight* to announce demand for apps, websites to deploy “hash matching” (i.e. client-side scanning, fuzzy matching) of uploaded images “to protect children”
privacy impact: logfiles of fuzzy-matching hash databases become long-term surveillance pipeline to retrospectively track whistleblower leak images, Snowden 2.0, etc; plus enabling censorship of arbitrary content.
WATCH THIS SPACE; ETA 2230H LONDON.
#censorship #clientSideScanning #fuzzyMatching #hashMatching #ofcom #surveillance