Experts have long warned against the idea of so-called client-side scanning. Back in 2023, experts' criticisms led UK lawmakers to decide to halt any scanning requirements within the Online Safety Act until it was technically feasible to do so privately and securely. Now, the government appears to be convinced that that day has arrived, but technologists and privacy advocates aren't buying it. From a technological point of view, Mullvad VPN's Founder, Daniel Berntsson, believes that operating system-level scanning will inevitably harm the trust that users have in their devices. And this, he ex