E2EE Surveillance: client-side scanning
There are proposals to impose censorship on material being shared
digitally between individuals by means of requiring that computers
(including snoop phones) contain a specific nonfree program which
would check for forbidden communications before end-to-end encryption
goes to work. That system design is called "client-side scanning".
For me, the first argument against this is self-evident: nonfree
software is unjust and requiring any nonfree software is inexcusable.
The second argument is monitoring of people's private communications
is tyranny, and that once the system exists it will surely be used
to censor political views.
However, to persuade officials who don't care about those human rights
issues, neither the unjustice of nonfree software nor that of privacy
will suffice. Other arguments are needed.
Here are some practical arguments against
mandating client-side
scanning.