This is a lie. Did you try reading the actual announcement by Apple? It's right here: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/ https://www.apple.com/child-safety/.

This is a lie. Did you try reading the actual announcement by Apple? It's right here: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/ https://www.apple.com/child-safety/. - The scanning will be performed only if photos are to be uploaded to iCloud. - The database will be encrypted multiple times in a way that it can't be clearly read. - There's not notification to Apple in any way in case of matches. - Instead, each match result is again encrypted in a way that is inaccessible to Apple and uploaded together with photo - If there a lot of positive matches, they eventually will become able to decrypt it. That's when they will do manual check, lock the account if it is correct and notify authorities.