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Child pornography and other types of sexual abuse of children are unquestionably heinous crimes; those who participate in them should be caught and severely punished. But some recent efforts to combat these scourges have gone a good ways down the path toward a kind of AI-driven digital panopticon that will invade the privacy of everyone in order to try to catch people who are violating laws prohibiting those activities. It is thus no surprise that privacy advocates are up in arms about an Apple plan to scan iPhone messages and an EU measure to allow companies to scan private messages, both looking for "child sexual abuse material" (CSAM). As with many things of this nature, there are concerns about the collateral damage that these efforts will cause—not to mention the slippery slope that is being created. ...