by Cam Wakefield, Reclaim The Net:
“Think of the children” is the oldest skeleton key in the political toolbox and the British government has just jammed it into the lock on every phone in the country.
Ministers are reportedly drafting a law that would force Apple, Google, and the rest to make it impossible for a child to send, receive, view, or share a single nude image, with the executives who refuse facing up to five years in prison.
The children are the headline but the surveillance is the product.
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Peel off the press release and the demand turns out to be impossible to meet without doing the exact thing the government has wanted to do for years. You cannot block every naked picture someone might stumble across without inspecting every picture, every message, every video call, every streamed film, on every device, all the time.
A filter that total requires surveillance that total.
The nudity is the excuse and the unbroken view into your phone is the actual prize, with “protecting kids” chosen as the wrapping paper precisely because nobody dares unwrap it in public.
The industry calls the method client-side scanning, a phrase engineered to sound like a checkbox in Settings rather than what it is, a permanent informant living on hardware you paid for.
Frame it as catching predators and it sails through. Frame it honestly, as government-mandated spyware on tens of millions of phones, and it sinks. So the framing stays welded to the children, where objection is made to feel indecent.
The enforcement is lifted from the Online Safety Act, that gift that keeps on taking, which already lets the state jail technology bosses for five years.
Sold to the public as a shield for children, it’s behaving more like a crowbar, and the government has now found the wall it most wants to lever open, which is the inside of your phone.
