https://reclaimthenet.org/starmer-calls-for-spyware-on-all-phones Here is what “device-level” means once you peel off the cuddly branding. To catch one naughty photo on your phone, something has to inspect every photo on your phone. All of them. It is software that leans over your shoulder the instant you raise your camera, squints at whatever you are making, and decides whether you may keep it or it gets reported to authorities. Ah, but adults will be fine, we are assured. Officials promise the controls will not bother devices “owned and used by adults who verify their age.” The opt-out for surveillance is, gloriously, more surveillance. To switch off a child-lock on a phone you bought with your own money and legally own, you must first march up to the state and prove who you are. Self-described panopticon enthusiast, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, is having precisely none of this doom-mongering. “I make no apologies for doing the right thing to protect children from paedophiles. This is about stopping the coercion and sextortion of children, not surveilling or policing people’s phones,” she insists, with breezy confidence.
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