[Intro — machine noise and locked drum grid, 8 bars, no vocals] Not only on your phone On your personal computer Every device, every account Every file on every machine [Verse 1] Senate bill S. 1829 One hundred and nineteenth Congress Strengthening Transparency and Obligations To Protect Children Suffering from Abuse California AB 1043, Digital Age Assurance Act Signed October twenty twenty five Required on all operating systems Effective January first, twenty twenty seven Not only on your phone On your personal computer Every device, every account Every file on every machine They built the door They built the door The door is in the wall now The door is in the wall [Chorus — locked grid, grinding, repeat twice] In twenty twenty, Irish police received four thousand reports Twenty percent were confirmed material Fewer than ten percent were actionable The infrastructure remains Four thousand reports, twenty percent confirmed Eighty percent were not confirmed A sliding side door For any opaque reason in future [Verse 2] A father in the United States Photographed his son's medical condition Transmitted the image to the treating physician The scanner flagged the transmission Google terminated the account The case was reported to law enforcement The police cleared him of all charges Google kept the account closed The false positive is not a flaw in the design The false positive is the acceptable cost Of building the door into the wall The door is already in the wall [Chorus] In twenty twenty, Irish police received four thousand reports Twenty percent were confirmed material Fewer than ten percent were actionable The infrastructure remains Four thousand reports, twenty percent confirmed Eighty percent were not confirmed A sliding side door For any opaque reason in future [Bridge — flat spoken announcement, zero inflection, full noise wall underneath] Facebook internal study. Seventy five percent of messages flagged by their own scanner were not malicious. Jokes. Memes. Personal photographs. LinkedIn reported seventy five cases to EU authorities in twenty twenty one. After manual review, thirty one were confirmed. Forty one percent accuracy. The system is considered highly effective. The United States government requires this not only on phones and mobile devices but on personal computers and laptops. Every operating system. Every account. Every file you have never transmitted. Files that never touched a network. The Internet Architecture Board, twenty twenty four: "For technologies where the intended purpose is scanning of user communication, there is by design no technical way to limit the scope and intent of scanning, nor curtail subsequent changes in scope or intent." It is simply a sliding side door to be used for any opaque reason in future. No vote required. No law change needed. Update the database. The door is already in the wall. [Verse 3] West Virginia versus Apple, February twenty twenty six Mason County Circuit Court Seeking injunctive relief and mandatory scanning On every device in every home Apple filed removal to federal court, April first Arguing compelled search of user content Conflicts with the Fourth Amendment The case is pending European Parliament, March twenty sixth Three hundred and eleven votes to two hundred and twenty eight Rejected extension of voluntary scanning rules The permanent regulation resumes negotiation May fourth They are building the door into the kernel Your phone, your laptop, your desktop machine Every document, every photograph Every note, every locally stored key Every file that never touched the network Scanned before encryption Reported before you know The door is in the wall [Chorus — repeat three times, drums intensify each pass, vocals flatten further] In twenty twenty, Irish police received four thousand reports Twenty percent were confirmed material Fewer than ten percent were actionable The infrastructure remains Four thousand reports, twenty percent confirmed Eighty percent were not confirmed A sliding side door For any opaque reason in future [Escalation — spoken flat over intensifying grind, each line slower and more spaced] Year one. Known child abuse hashes. Undeniable. Year two. Terrorism watchlists. Still easy to justify. Year three. Extremist content. Definition to be determined. Year four. Political dissent. Protest organisation. Journalism sources. Encrypted keys. Opposition. Year five. Medical records. Financial transactions. Private correspondence. Everything you wrote offline. Everything you thought was local. Everything. ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING No amendment required. Update the database. The scope expands by administrative decision. Not legislation. No debate. No vote. No headline. A sliding side door. To be used for any opaque reason in future.
