It scared me when this story first broke that there was almost no focus on the real harms being addressed. It was all about calling out the flawed methodology about the scanning, not the overarching reason why anyone needed to talk about scanning images at all.
I think the litmus test for if a service perfectly respects privacy is if a pedophile can conduct their entire operation using the service without their private data being exposed to prying eyes. By that metric, there ought to be no perfectly private services on the clearnet. To many it is a matter of compromise and "thinking of the children."
Those who really want a higher level of privacy don't need to be beholden to a publicly traded company, subject to legal requirements, to provide it to them.
I think the litmus test for if a service perfectly respects privacy is if a pedophile can conduct their entire operation using the service without their private data being exposed to prying eyes. By that metric, there ought to be no perfectly private services on the clearnet. To many it is a matter of compromise and "thinking of the children."
Those who really want a higher level of privacy don't need to be beholden to a publicly traded company, subject to legal requirements, to provide it to them.