Mike Johnson’s Anti-Porn Security Risk

The Guardian reviews Covenant Eyes, the anti-porn phone app used by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

“The app works – when it does work – by taking screenshots of whatever you’re looking at on your phone a couple of times a minute, and feeding the results into its system. From there, AI technology decides what constitutes regular phone use and what it deems to be pornographic incursions. When the app thinks you’ve viewed porn, it sends an alert to your ‘accountability partner,’ a trusted person you have designated to help you on your porn-free journey.”

Sending random screenshots of the speaker’s phone to a non-government server would seem to be a major security risk.