Signal says UK plan to scan devices for nude images 'endangers us all'

2026-06-10

Keir Starmer gives tech firms three months to deploy device-level scanning that blocks minors from taking, sharing, or viewing nude images, or face legislation. Signal warns that client-side scanning and age checks create new surveillance and censorship hooks, expand attack surface via updatable abuse databases or models, and break its privacy trust model even if images stay on-device.