Once built, such a system isn't just able to scan for harmful content, it could very well be used or abused to look for anything interesting:

🔓 Your credit card details

🔓 Your sexual orientation

🔓 Your businesses' customer lists

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In Europe everyone is talking about #DigitalSovereignty - which is great! But we can't have that and undermine our sovereignty by giving law enforcement the key to all encrypted communication. To us at Tuta it's clear:

"There are no backdoors for the good guys only".

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AI technology designed to detect illegal material cannot distinguish between "good" and "bad" speech. It opens the door for governments, now or in the future, to monitor all messages, photos, and videos. Once the infrastructure for scanning is in place, it can and will be used for other means as well.

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Ask yourself this: Would you install a camera in your bathroom so the government can "make sure nothing bad happens"? Interestingly, EU governments themselves don't want the AI to scrape their data.

Check whose data the AI will be able to scan:

❌ Government

❌ Military

✅ YOU

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