ALL cloud providers are actively scanning all of your content right now, unless you specifically encrypt it yourself.
It's a cost of doing business pretty much, you need to give the authorites access to customers data or they can go "but think of the children, there might be child abuse material in there!" and that's really damn hard to argue against.
Thus: checking stuff on-device and keeping the cloud locked so that not even the hoster can access it nor can they create a backdoor.
Of course they need a warrant. Officer Johnson from Randomtown Alabama can't just call up Google and tell they want access to everything in GDrive :D
But the point is that if the data is fully encrypted, no warrant will help against pure mathematics. A cloud provider cannot give something they have no access to.
Right, but your post kind of made it seem like they didn't. And with the CSASM stuff, they didn't need anything to match hashes. So what happens when that gets expanded to other types of content that they still don't need a warrant for? Like torrent files?
> But the point is that if the data is fully encrypted, no warrant will help against pure mathematics. A cloud provider cannot give something they have no access to.
Agreed, but most don't use encryption, and should still have privacy rights for their data.
If they would have expanded it beyond CSAM, in that instance I would have joined the rest of the internet on the picket lines protesting against the system.
The point of the system would've been that EVERYONE'S content would've been encrypted in the cloud without them needing to do anything.
It's a cost of doing business pretty much, you need to give the authorites access to customers data or they can go "but think of the children, there might be child abuse material in there!" and that's really damn hard to argue against.
Thus: checking stuff on-device and keeping the cloud locked so that not even the hoster can access it nor can they create a backdoor.