Several of these apps currently have end-to-end encryption, which means that no, they aren't scanned. Even if they were, what a state can do with them (falsely

Several of these apps currently have end-to-end encryption, which means that no, they aren't scanned. Even if they were, what a state can do with them (falsely accuse me of heinous crimes) is a lot more dangerous than what a corporation is likely to do with them (show me different ads). > Pretty much all of the blackmailing scams that drove teenagers to suicide were being perpetuated from outside the country that the victim was living in The recent cases in the Netherlands (where I live) were all Dutch perpetrators. Anyway, this technology won't catch that -- sending nude pictures is, after all, both perfectly legal and very common. The scanning software can't know that the picture is sent to somebody only acting as a boyfriend rather than an actual boyfriend. I can see the point of a database of known child porn pictures. The phone app could keep a database of hashes of those exact files, and check for them. Other than that, I don't see what good automatic scanning can possibly do, and there is a HUGE potential for abuse.