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According to this article, it seems they want to sell it directly to chat applications.

"There's a company called Thorn that is lobbying for the scanning contract and would love to get a government mandate for its software to be installed into your chat clients," he said.

Apparently Apple didn't want to pay and developed their own in-house, only to scrap it after complaints from the public.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/13/clientside_scanning_c...




Wow this is literally textbook crap.




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