Researchers call for UK, EU to heed scientific evaluation of client-side scanning proposals

Scientists and researchers are criticizing both the United Kingdom’s and European Union’s proposals that could allow national authorities to mandate the use of client-side scanning technologies on encrypted messaging apps. Experts from the U.K.’s National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online (REPHRAIN) this week called on politicians in Britain “to consider

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