{"id":19404,"date":"2026-11-10T11:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T18:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=19404"},"modified":"2026-11-10T11:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T18:24:19","slug":"uk-mps-push-mandatory-software-to-scan-every-phone-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/uk-mps-push-mandatory-software-to-scan-every-phone-image\/","title":{"rendered":"UK MPs Push Mandatory Software To Scan Every Phone Image"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

And they keep inching towards digital ID and on device agentic AI to scan all your activity, and all you have to do is look at how the UK treats citizens that are fighting against the Great Replacement, jailing people for legitimate posts. And some in France are moving to make referring to the Great Replacement a crime<\/a> in and of itself. The foundations for Antichrist’s Islamic rule are ramping up fast, and a big part of it is the illogical rush for data centers. And notice how the elites are sidelining global warming for their control infrastructure data centers, actually creating far more pollution with generators and any way they can generate enough electricity to power them. Consequently, global warming was always a scam anyway to profit from green technology and tax dollars while raising the cost of fuel and electricity…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/reclaimthenet.org\/uk-mandatory-phone-image-scanning<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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The pitch is that it only looks for illegal content. The catch is that it has to look at everything else to find it.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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By Cindy Harper<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea of software that inspects every image on people\u2019s phones, including those in their private photo albums, has been around for a while, but a cross-party group of UK MPs and peers is now trying to make sure it becomes a reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The software would be installed on every phone and tablet sold in the country, to check for child sexual abuse material, including that created using AI. This would include livestreams, The Observer reported<\/u><\/a> on November 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The newspaper\u2019s own summary of the proposal is stark: \u201cSmartphones and tablets in UK would be prevented from viewing or creating illicit content by mandatory software on all devices.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the report said, this is not something that could be installed only on new devices, but also those already in use would have to be covered, \u201cusing a mandatory software update.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those behind the idea are led in the Lords by Conservative peer John Nash. In the Commons, the policy is supported by Labour MP Jess Phillips, who until May served as the safeguarding minister<\/u><\/a> and resigned her post over the government\u2019s slow action in blocking nudity on children\u2019s phones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, Phillips wants the government to \u201clook at the technology that we are going to demand children have on their phones and see what else we can think about.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Nash is undeterred by the fact that such software would have to look at every image, video, and livestream on the phone, where people also keep their private photos, notes, and conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To block an image, the software has to look at it first, and this is something that has to happen on the device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nash, who says he thinks free speech matters, but \u201cwe are talking about stuff that is illegal,\u201d wants the software to be installed on all devices, and believes tech companies can be made to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf it can be done for children\u2019s phones on these images, it can be done for child sexual abuse images on all phones. Frankly, these are trillion-dollar companies. Of course, if they are made to do it, they can do it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the government does not act, Nash plans to propose an amendment, likely to the forthcoming national security bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea has been in the works for a while. In June, the government gave Apple and Google three months<\/u><\/a>, saying at the time that \u201ccompanies should switch these protections on by default, for every child, on every device.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government promised that this would be done \u201cwithout threatening privacy or collecting any data\u201d and that \u201cthe device should simply block harmful content across all apps and services.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was also revealed that while the plan was to have the software switched on by default on all devices, adults would be able to opt in to view nude content \u201cthrough an age verification process\u201d \u2013 meaning that those who don\u2019t provide ID would have their phones treated like children\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy committed to \u201cprimary legislation<\/u><\/a> to require major tech platforms to build in device-level protections for children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a UK-based charity that works to have online child abuse content removed, says that in 2025 it took action on 312,030 reports<\/u><\/a>, and found 3,440 AI-generated abuse videos, up from 13 in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The British government is not exactly in the best position to be making these demands of Apple and Google, given its own record. In January 2025, the government issued a secret \u201ctechnical capability notice<\/u><\/a>\u201d under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, which would have given it access to any iCloud user\u2019s data worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apple reacted by withdrawing its Advanced Data Protection feature from UK users, rather than build a backdoor into it. The government was not deterred, and in the second half of 2025 it issued another notice, this time excluding US users. Apple is now fighting this in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While all this was happening, a White House security official<\/u><\/a> wrote in September that \u201cthe UK is making another attempt to put a backdoor on iCloud.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem with mass surveillance and censorship tools is that they don\u2019t stay focused on one target for long. As we have reported<\/u><\/a>, \u201cAny software capable of scanning images on a device can be updated to scan for different content.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Germany\u2019s Justice Minister compared mandatory message scanning<\/u><\/a> to \u201copening all letters as a precautionary measure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is why this latest proposal to the British parliament is so insidious \u2013 it puts an inspector on every phone in the country, looking at every photo and piece of writing before it is shared; it is one of the most brazen attacks on privacy ever proposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is coming from a government that has already been caught trying to get a secret backdoor into Apple\u2019s iCloud. Now it wants something even bigger: a way to scan every phone, and have the ability to update the software on it at any time to look for whatever content it chooses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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