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The FBI needs file hashes of every photo on everyone's phone. It will help detect abusers of cp/illegal content. It is the mandate of the FBI and their job for
by coralreef 5y ago
The FBI needs file hashes of every photo on everyone's phone. It will help detect abusers of cp/illegal content.
It is the mandate of the FBI and their job for a long time now to stop those things.
There doesn't seem to be any evidence that these hashes would be used to penalize people in other ways, but if there was then sure, that's cause for worry.
/parody
- drusepth 5y agoThe comment says /parody, but I'd happily sacrifice such a small amount of privacy (hashes of the photos of my phone; not even the photos themselves?) to help law enforcement detect abusers of child pornography and related illegal content. The hypothetical "what if" of how those hashes could be used to penalize people in other ways is FUD. We can think of millions of ways to abuse any system -- but that doesn't mean that people will.
- coralreef 5y ago> We can think of millions of ways to abuse any system -- but that doesn't mean that people will. What world do you live in? Did you entirely miss out on the Snowden revelations?