Scanning tech would turn every phone into a surveillance device ⚠️

UK Ministers may claim this is to stop children sharing intimate images.

But it means forcing every adult through a digital ID checkpoint and scanning all private images by default.

Once the infrastructure exists, it will be expanded.

It would award every future government and every tyranny across the globe a mechanism to pre-censor everything anyone does with their phone.

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Starmer gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children’s phones

Companies such as Apple and Google have until September to install software or face legislation, says PM

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