- cross-posted to:
- privacy@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@programming.dev
The UK government is giving Apple and Google three months to build on-device scanning infrastructure. This isn’t about child safety; it’s about the end of private devices and the death of the “nothing to hide” fallacy.


That’s based on government surveillance, not skin color. As reductionist as it is, China has been the poster boy for government surveillance since the 90s at very least.
Fixed that for you.
It’s not just propaganda though. By basically all accounts China is a highly surveilled country.