--- title: UK move to filter photos and messages triggers... description: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has given tech companies three months to implement device-level controls blocking children from accessing sexually explicit... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/uk-move-to-filter-photos-and-messages-triggers-encryption-worries-for-cisos-wblcn3deg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: UK move to filter photos and messages triggers encryption worries for CISOs | daily.dev og:description: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has given tech companies three months to implement device-level controls blocking children from accessing sexually explicit... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/uk-move-to-filter-photos-and-messages-triggers-encryption-worries-for-cisos-wblcn3deg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/WBlCN3deG.png og:image:alt: UK move to filter photos and messages triggers encryption worries for CISOs og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # UK move to filter photos and messages triggers encryption worries for CISOs **[CSO Online](https://daily.dev/sources/csoonline)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has given tech companies three months to implement device-level controls blocking children from accessing sexually explicit content, or face mandatory legislation. Security experts and CISOs warn the proposal creates serious encryption risks: on-device scanning is technically infeasible for most older hardware, pushing analysis to the cloud where encrypted enterprise data becomes vulnerable. Signal strongly opposes the plan, calling it surveillance infrastructure that will be expanded beyond its stated purpose. Analysts highlight additional flaws including the impossibility of reliable age detection on shared devices, massive compute overhead, filter-tuning challenges, and the risk that future governments could repurpose the capability for political censorship. Experts suggest existing parental control tools already address the stated problem without mandating state-controlled inspection layers. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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