You are wrong. It is not a numerical Hash of the exact image. It is a perceptual Hash of the images characteristics and perceived continent by the algorithm, t

You are wrong. It is not a numerical Hash of the exact image. It is a perceptual Hash of the images characteristics and perceived continent by the algorithm, that’s the “neural” in neuralmatch. Apple, for yours has been building-in machine learning dedicated chips into their builds so this shouldn’t affect battery life. Matthew Green is tweeting about this: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1423071186616000513?s=21 https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/14230711866160005... and mentions that it is "preceptial hasing" 9 to 5 Mac article, in which they restate that it is not a classical bit-by-bit hash: https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/05/scanning-for-child-abuse-images/ https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/05/scanning-for-child-abuse-imag...