>> >>Potential mild irritation for me for 20 years versus even one child saved?
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>> >>I'll take that deal.
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>> Come to that you can look at every photo I ever have always, if it
>> will protect one child.
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That's not the point though is it. What happens if they have a law saying they want a camera in your bedroom because, well, you might be doing something illegal to a child there. You have nothing to fear.
What happens if you get a knock at 3am and dragged to the police station by an ever so polite cop with his gun drawn because one of your holiday snaps matches an algorithm (and what AI system is 100% perfect) and is flagged as a false positive.
There are people in this country who have been arrested because an Internet provider said an IP was theirs - with all the stigma that involves - only for the cops to find out the data was misinterpreted.
It always starts with the extremes - what, you don't like this technology, then you must like child porn. Just like the surveillance and anti terrorism laws that impacted liberties - oh you don't support the Patriots Act, do you support terrorists or flying planes in to buildings. Don't support the Anti Terrorism act, what, do you want more tube bombings.
What happens if you download a newspaper article criticising the Govt. and they start targeting dissenters and you get arrested for having that document on your phone.
Or there is a crime at the local park and an algorithm matches a photo you took to that park and you get arrested.
The mere fact that you were arrested, even if you are totally innocent will impact you for the rest of your life. Travel visas are more difficult to obtain. Every time you get checked at a traffic stop it will show when the police check your name etc.
Basically this isn't about protecting children. If it were, I would have no issue. It's about increasing mass surveillance and as usual using an emotive subject will ensure it gets approved (I can see the Home Secretary salivating over the idea now) and in a few years time the goal posts will have moved so wide that you could get the Amoco Cadiz through them.
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