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Activist raided by police after downloading 'confidential' meeting from Google

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He wasn't "raided", he was arrested. A company believed he committed an offence, police arrest you to investigate to ensure they can secure the digital evidence. That's how the UK legal system works.

He was arrested over downloading public information. That’s not how any legal system should work.

Furthermore, no charges were filed:

>> "He was taken into custody and later released under investigation. Following a review of all available evidence, it was determined no offences had been committed and no further action was taken."

Looks like the act is being misused appropriately.

iOS 15's privaterelay can't come quick enough! I hate having to remember to turn on VPN for things (not for actually having zero trace, just a remote enough trace to discourage lazy municipal police from responding to a server admin's complaint), and I wouldn't have turned on VPN or used Tor for this

It wont help when Apple themselves have your machine check itself for unauthorised content and report you.

Oh, when will they start doing that? Because that’s not what the CSAM checking is doing if that’s what you’re talking about.

Isn't it? Honestly asking.

Apple are having peoples handsets check file hashes against a hash list and reporting anyone who has files with hashes on the list right? And there is a threshold of matches below which you dont get reported. Above that they lock your account.

The fact they're currently limiting it to image files and the US doesn't seem like much of a difference.

Am i missing some clever defence against misuse.

An individual technical measure for users wouldn't necessarily prevent, for example, sketchy co-operation between private interests and law enforcement when it appears to benefit both of them (regardless of whether any situation in question was searchable on the public web).

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