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Last year, Apple announced a controversial plan to install photo scanning software in every device. Apple has long been seen as a pro-privacy company--billboards emblazoned with the slogan "What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone" were common sights in 2019. A global coalition pushed back, and the company paused the plan.
Now, Congress wants to force Apple's hand--along with essentially every company that allows users to store or share messages or content--and essentially mandate such scanning.
While Apple's plan would have put the privacy and security of its users at risk, the EARN IT Act compromises security and free speech for everyone. The bill would create serious legal risk for business that hosts content--messages, photos stored in the cloud, online backups--and, potentially, even cloud-hosting sites like those using Amazon Web Services, unless they use government-approved scanning tools.
Facebook is often held up as a positive example by lawmakers, but while new scanning techniques there have produced many millions of reports, many of them are apparently inaccurate. Federal law enforcement has frequently (mis)used the massive number of reports to suggest there has been a huge uptick in CSAM images. They won't stop there.
Nor will the demands stop at the U.S. border. Once U.S. law enforcement agencies are accustomed to getting a constant stream of reports back from nearly every company hosting or sending content online, other democracies--and then authoritarian regimes--will demand the same tools, and use them to root out dissent. The rules envisioned by EARN IT sponsors don't leave room for any company, small or large, to use uncompromised encryption and protect user privacy.
The bill would also create an unelected federal "commission" headed by the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security, and dominated by law enforcement personnel. This commission would be responsible for setting best practices for tech companies to follow.
Truths already circumvent Technologies that seek to use communism tactic's to silence truths, but the masses won't allow this pipe-dream for evil funneling to prevail in the long run, in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteAmerican's never needed tech companies for finding truths this way prior, adjustments will find the way to silence all lies if used commie style by folks that know better yet choose to making bad choices; Geniuses exist that are not evil as well, they will be innovative to serve mankind at a higher vibration, in my opinion!
God allows super-natural happenings, answers prayers, God is way better than Technology at the end of the day! God knows more than our oppressor's using deception against his people!