Daily Archives: 2021-08-05

Article note: There are a few things I notice that are a little odd as far as attribution lines, but it's a nice chart with a ton of truly obscure things broken out.

Article note: Sigh. Privacy getting "Think of the children"'d again. You build the technical capability to scan all your users' devices for undesirable content of any particular kind (with sketchy perceptual hashing tools! Surely nothing bad will happen there! How you feelin' "human inspection" hired to spend all day looking at pictures of people's kids in baths to make sure nothing sketchy is going on?), and you will get pressure from governments and interest groups to scan for arbitrary other things, because you have already expressed that your system can do so. Previous similar tools were a little less gross there was a "It's running server side, we're making sure we aren't storing or transporting illegal content" pseudo-justification, and the _vendor_ was running it on their hardware instead of user's expensive devices they supposedly "own" snitching on them.