With many packages this already happens in the search for drugs and weapons and I have no problem with that either.
when they open mail with drugs and weapons it's most likely not a sculpture of your wife's genitals / daughter's tits, pics of your hemorrhoids / erectile implant - whatever other private pic stuff that no one else should be peering at.
If they were opening and reading every written word sent and received - I can guarantee you people would be up in arms about it.
I know for sure this is true, but this BS scenario was still used as a rebuttal against my comment, so I figured I'd give them an actual answer.
> when they open mail with drugs and weapons it's most likely not ... other private pic stuff that no one else should be peering at.
People order a lot of stuff that is very private online. From self help books, to dilos (which show up clearly on x-ray), to buttless chaps. If anything, packages are probably more private than mail these days, since people only mail postcards and bills.
> If they were opening and reading every written word sent and received - I can guarantee you people would be up in arms about it.
They would. But this is completely incomparable to what's happening on iOS devices now.
think I brought too many examples in basically trying to say flat paper.. yeah I think most people assume boxes/packages are xrayed/scanned by usps - and people do still send stuff they would not want public that way.
we are in agreement in that "They would. But this is completely incomparable to what's happening on iOS devices now."
To be clear, I'm not disagreeing with you in regards to the harm caused in the specific case of CSAM, but I can't help but see this as a slippery slope into having the ability in the future to label and act on other kinds of information detected as objectionable (and by whom one must also ask), which is itself incredibly harmful to privacy and to a functioning free society.