In the physical world, the limits are clear: no democratic government is permitted to monitor citizens in their homes without a court order, even to prevent domestic violence or child sexual abuse. In the digital world, though, the answer remains unresolved. Child safety advocates believe that governments must be able to unlock private messages, while tech companies and privacy activists see a smokescreen for mass government surveillance.
They want to do client side scanning which technically keeps E2E encryption but basically destroys the principle behind it. Today it’s CSAM, tomorrow its terrorism related phrases, next year its “anti-government sentiment”
Which won’t affect the majority of people at all. Which is how they get away with it.
The people who do care will just move to safer alternatives.
Literally. I believe most criminals aren’t using WhatsApp. Moreso some weird thing called “EncroChat”
Exactly.
But you do hear a lot about Facebook groups for it and shit. I’m guessing many of them are just stupid as fuck.
Which I guess is the target of this.
If they’re that stupid can’t they just have people infiltrate the group like they do with encrochat