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This is incredibly disappointing. The sick criminals that run child pornography rings are not storing their material on iCloud. The "This could be sensitive to
by Jaxkr 5y ago
This is incredibly disappointing. The sick criminals that run child pornography rings are not storing their material on iCloud.
The "This could be sensitive to view" screen is downright Orwellian. This technology could be used to scan for ANYTHING, completely undermining user privacy. It might just be CP today, but tomorrow it could be screenshots of protest material, whistleblower content, or anti-government memes.
I cannot express how sad I am Apple has decided to do this. It doesn't protect children, it won't catch any pedophiles, but it certainly WILL be misused in the future and create a chilling effect on what (politically dissident) content people are willing to store on their phones.
- arriu 5y agoLol there is no way they will be scanning for just one type of thing. That would be a waste of computation. They will tag everything and decide if they want to use it later. Scary times; for exactly the reasons you've called out.
- cyral 5y agoThey already tag everything, just search for any object in your photos library (wether you are on iOS or even Android with Google Photos) and it will find it.
- hypertele-Xii 5y agoI hadn't realized the implications until you brought this up. Thank you. That's... disconcerting?
- angulardragon03 5y agoOn iOS this is done on-device. Apple provides the model(s), and while your phone is charging and asleep it classifies your photos. I can’t find an extended explanation right now, but they say as much under the photos heading on their privacy page: https://www.apple.com/privacy/ https://www.apple.com/privacy/
- anthk 5y agoBuy a dumphone with J2ME support, install just the minimal stuff. TXT reader (on a PC with Linux/BSD/OSX this can generate a TXT file from an EPUB): #!/bin/sh #epub.sh unzip -qcp "$1" "*ml" "*.htm" | lynx -force-html -dump -stdin -nolist > "$2" [ Usage: epub.sh file.epub file.txt ] MP3 player, simple HTML browser, FM radio (it's nice often), Gopher (there are a few J2ME browsers, and there are lots of nice stuff out there). For gaming, IF thru the T9 kbd it's effective, or a GB emulator with custom ROMs (itch.io has several free and a lot of games are long and turn based). Use a smartphone for work and for nothing else. If any, the news over a dumb web interface, as these will run on current dumbphone with ease: https://lite.cnn.io https://lite.cnn.io https://text.npr.org https://text.npr.org http://68k.news http://68k.news Have fun.
- erhk 5y agoI can't wait until photos of marvel movies get deleted and you get a warning for breaking copyright.