The Law and Policy of Client-Side Scanning

Tags: 2020s Client-Side Scanning Content Detection Online Abuse Online Safety

Authors: Rosenzweig, Paul

Published: August 2020

URL: https://www.lawfareblog.com/law-and-policy-client-side-scanning

Abstract: Paul Rosenzweig, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the Department of Homeland Security, and founder of a homeland security consulting company, writes an analysis of client-side scanning published by the Lawfare Institute in cooperation with the Brookings Institute. He concludes that, while client-side scanning offers attractive protective capabilities to meet the rise of online-distributed child pornography via encrypted systems, its adoption at its current nascent stage would be nonetheless undesirable due to technological, legal, and policy uncertainties.