> If everything happens on the device and noting is sent to servers, how does it break encryption? if the process runs on the device, scans information on the

> If everything happens on the device and noting is sent to servers, how does it break encryption? if the process runs on the device, scans information on the device, and then triggers to notify FB when it matches something, that's breaking the encryption. it's leaking of encrypted information (the fact that it's there, which rules triggered), but more importantly what's the use of encryption if you got a process that's basically acting as a mole, even if it's running locally? unless I am wrong how this works, but at some point it'll trigger and notify FB or perhaps a government? if it doesn't do anything, then it might as well no be there. and if this system gets off, there will be false positives, and there will be trigger rules matching much broader things than they strictly need, "just in case". we kind of know how these stories go by now and which bits we can safely give no benefit of the doubt because a state or a corporation wants them so strongly. I'm gonna guess it will be a black box "algorithm" without clear trigger rules, because it's AI/ML it's hard/impossible to explain exactly how it reaches its conclusions and therefore nobody knows really (and much NDA unto those who do). that's gonna be a hard sell though, even to the general public.