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> Most cloud services — Dropbox, Google, and Microsoft to name a few — already scan user files for content that might violate their terms of service or be poten
by kmlx 5y ago
> Most cloud services — Dropbox, Google, and Microsoft to name a few — already scan user files for content that might violate their terms of service or be potentially illegal, like CSAM.
- marticode 5y agoThere's an expectation that what you upload on the cloud will get some scrutiny, being on somebody else machine. But here they'll scan the local files on your own device, that you supposedly "own" (but not really, because Apple already locked it up to make sure you can only install stuff they have approved and taken a cut off)
- kmlx 5y agothis is false. it's not scanning your local files. only the files you upload to apple photos.
- barrkel 5y agoThe compute is on the edge; the data is local, just marked for cloud sync. This way, you get to pay for the capital and energy costs of the scanning instead of Apple.
- nomel 5y agoAm I misunderstanding that this is the literal last step for a photo destined for iCloud, and a way to keep apple from having to decrypt your private photos to scan them? With iCloud sync off, does this scan still happen?
- simondotau 5y agoCorrect. Functionally there is no difference to what Google does with their own cloud photo service. The only difference is where the processing occurs. Turning off cloud photo syncing will disable the scan on both Android and iOS.