Because they aren’t scanning phone to detect child abuse.
That’s the excuse and gateway into your phone. If you say “no” then you are supporting pedophilia. However, it’s not the ultimate objective.
That’s the excuse and gateway into your phone. If you say “no” then you are supporting pedophilia. However, it’s not the ultimate objective.
My favourite wrench to throw in such gears has been that whatever affordances the current (maybe reasonable) government affords itself will be inherited by the next.
Whatever Joe Biden can do, the next Republican president can do, too and vice versa.
Or, to take a historic perspective: whatever rules and exist and whatever data (e.g. list of Jews) existed before the Nazis came to power were also available to the Nazis even if the original reason for these rules and data collections were well meaning and maybe even good in context.