On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 11:29:01 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'Facebook announced earlier this year preliminary results from its efforts to move a global mass surveillance infrastructure directly onto users' devices where it can bypass the protections of end-to-end encryption.'
Or maybe that was one person’s overreaction to another person’s overreaction <https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/more_on_backdoo.html>: Leetaru extrapolated a lot out of very little. I watched the video ... and it doesn't talk about client-side scanning of messages. It doesn't talk about messaging apps at all. It discusses using AI techniques to find bad content on Facebook, and the difficulties that arise from dynamic content ... [AI best located on the device] might be true, but it also would hand whatever secret-AI sauce Facebook has to every one of its users to reverse engineer -- which means it's probably not going to happen. And it is a dumb idea ...