I only worry that, in the case that renting becomes a roundabout way of granting more oversight ability to the government, then as home ownership rates decrease, government surveillance power increases.
Sure, it's facilitated through a third party (the owner), but the extrapolated pattern seems to be: "1. Only people in group B will have fewer rights, so people in group A shouldn't worry" followed closely by "2. Sorry, you've been priced out of group A."
In the case of renting, we end up in the situation where those who have enough wealth to own their own home are afforded extra privileges of privacy.
Now to bring this back to the cloud; the cynical part of me looks towards a future of cheap, cloud-only storage devices. Or an intermediate future of devices where cloud is first party and local storage is just enough of a hassle that people don't use it. And the result is that basically everyone now has the present day equivalent of local storage scanning.
If renting de-facto grants fewer rights, then in the future where "you'll own nothing and be happy", you'll also have no rights, and all the way people will say "as a renter, what did you expect?"
OK I agree with you about setting a precedent that future storage will be scanned by default. Additionally who will control the reference hash list?, since making one necessitates hashing that illicit material.
I only hope the court systems escalate it and manage to protect free speech or unreasonable search and seizure or self incrimination or whatever if the CSAM hash comparisons are used against political opponents or music piracy or tax evasion or whatever.
Sure, it's facilitated through a third party (the owner), but the extrapolated pattern seems to be: "1. Only people in group B will have fewer rights, so people in group A shouldn't worry" followed closely by "2. Sorry, you've been priced out of group A."
In the case of renting, we end up in the situation where those who have enough wealth to own their own home are afforded extra privileges of privacy.
Now to bring this back to the cloud; the cynical part of me looks towards a future of cheap, cloud-only storage devices. Or an intermediate future of devices where cloud is first party and local storage is just enough of a hassle that people don't use it. And the result is that basically everyone now has the present day equivalent of local storage scanning.
If renting de-facto grants fewer rights, then in the future where "you'll own nothing and be happy", you'll also have no rights, and all the way people will say "as a renter, what did you expect?"