Client-Side Scanning: A Trojan Horse for Encryption?

2025-09-22
Client-Side Scanning: A Trojan Horse for Encryption?

Client-side scanning (CSS), often touted as a child safety feature, actually undermines the very promise of encryption. These scanning tools are prone to errors and create new security vulnerabilities. Even if initially limited to Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), the scope can easily expand to monitor other conversations. Weakening encryption multiplies risks: hackers can steal data, abusers can track vulnerable individuals, and authoritarian regimes can spy on journalists, activists, and citizens. CSS doesn't make people safer; it makes everyone less secure.

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Meta Secretly Leaks Private AI Chats: A Privacy Nightmare

2025-06-06
Meta Secretly Leaks Private AI Chats: A Privacy Nightmare

The Mozilla community accuses Meta of secretly using private AI chat conversations as public content, unbeknownst to many users. They demand Meta shut down the Discover feed until real privacy protections are in place; make all AI interactions private by default with no public sharing option unless explicitly enabled; provide full transparency on how many users unknowingly shared private information; create a universal, easy-to-use opt-out system preventing data use for AI training; and notify all users whose conversations may have been made public, allowing them to permanently delete content. Meta is blurring the lines between private and public, jeopardizing user privacy.

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