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You can host whatever it is yourself which exempts you from most obligations, and even if not you're free to ignore the rules because nobody cares about you as

You can host whatever it is yourself which exempts you from most obligations, and even if not you're free to ignore the rules because nobody cares about you as an individual. There are enough alternatives also these days that may not be obligated due to size or jurisdiction etc (eg incoming EU regulations require a minimum user count, and such) The USA is unlikely to blanket ban encryption due to the way the country is organised from a federal and state point of view, and others like the UK are basically irrelevant as nobody will rule in their favour over domestic entities, as much as they'd like to believe otherwise and many countries just do not care about anyone else so that is always an option.

olliej 3y ago
The whole point of on device detection is that no hosting is involved or required: the media is scanned on device, and if the media matches the criminal material (actual child abuse, but in many US states easily anything transition or LGBT related, etc in other states anything gun or weapon related, etc) that is directly reported to law enforcement. Your ability to use an EU service gets exceedingly restricted when the US requires all EU businesses that serve US customers to comply with US law.
- throwaway67743 3y ago
  Well sure but the parent comment was re Google, who do cloud scanning already, that can be avoided by doing it yourself - device scanning is pretty pointless as the people who it's "intended" to catch won't use devices that have that capability and more likely it'll just be used by the more authoritarian states to curb dissent etc, or put people in jail for having a meme with Hitler in it... The USA is still probably safe there, the EU do what they want anyway without any regard for the impact it has. (From the POV of an EU citizen with US legal entities, so I'm getting shafted from both sides)

olliej 3y ago

The whole point of on device detection is that no hosting is involved or required: the media is scanned on device, and if the media matches the criminal material (actual child abuse, but in many US states easily anything transition or LGBT related, etc in other states anything gun or weapon related, etc) that is directly reported to law enforcement. Your ability to use an EU service gets exceedingly restricted when the US requires all EU businesses that serve US customers to comply with US law.

throwaway67743 3y ago
Well sure but the parent comment was re Google, who do cloud scanning already, that can be avoided by doing it yourself - device scanning is pretty pointless as the people who it's "intended" to catch won't use devices that have that capability and more likely it'll just be used by the more authoritarian states to curb dissent etc, or put people in jail for having a meme with Hitler in it... The USA is still probably safe there, the EU do what they want anyway without any regard for the impact it has. (From the POV of an EU citizen with US legal entities, so I'm getting shafted from both sides)