> "Meanwhile the UK is considering its own Online Safety Bill, which also imagines bypassing encryption via device-side scanning. Similar proposals, such as the

> "Meanwhile the UK is considering its own Online Safety Bill, which also imagines bypassing encryption via device-side scanning. Similar proposals, such as the EARN IT bill, keep surfacing in the US. The paper by Levy and Robinson – itself a response to a paper opposing device-side scanning that Anderson co-authored with 13 other security experts in 2021 – outlines the various types of harms children may encounter online: consensual peer-to-peer indecent image sharing; viral image sharing; offender to offender indecent image/video sharing; offender to victim grooming; offender to offender communication; offender to offender group communication; and streaming of on-demand contact abuse." ---- Maybe not specifically only grooming, but considering that most of the potential harm caused is going to start with interaction between the creep and the child, that means grooming is going to be one of the starting points they will be on the look out for, which is why this is all about client side infiltration. Seems to me that by nipping that problem in the bud first and foremost, by removing the potential for interaction at all in the first place; we remove the potential for harm to occur as well (edit: Which means there is no need to snoop on the client side.) But like you said, you already agree for the most part.