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Woah. I definitely don't want this. I don't want apple trolling through my data. Terrifying. This will be used in other ways. Whenever you hear "protect the ch
by malwarebytess 5y ago
Woah. I definitely don't want this. I don't want apple trolling through my data.
Terrifying. This will be used in other ways. Whenever you hear "protect the children" as an excuse to increase surveillance you know they're up to something horrible. The future is bleak AF.
- nomel 5y agoGoogle has been doing this with their cloud services since at least 2014 (from a quick google search) and Facebook at least 2011. From talking with a founder of a popular image service, this was a requirement a decade ago, for liability reasons.
- malwarebytess 5y agoI don't think you quite understand what Apple is doing. This is absolutely going to lead to deeper use of this kind of anti-encryption tech. third party doctrine loophole to the 4th amendment -- pretty soon every document on your PC will be crosschecked for a litany of things the government deems illegal.
- nomel 5y agoMaybe I'm misunderstanding, but it's scanning cloud hosted images, correct? > allow Apple to detect known CSAM images stored in iCloud Photos. ... Apple only learns about users’ photos if they have a collection of known CSAM in their iCloud Photos account. The only non-cloud hosted scan is for child accounts, with Apple getting no access, just transferring the warning to the parent.