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It won’t matter. Most of the public will applaud the move, many will call for it to be rolled out across every platform, including desktops. As this gathers momentum, it will eventually become illegal not to have pervasive scanning apps running on your device. Naturally, the technology will almost immediately be expanded to other kinds of content, and will be used as a wide open backdoor into everything in everyone’s life.

While this is not inevitable, I see a strong, perhaps overwhelming public response as being the only thing that will prevent it, and I do not see that response happening.