This person has a personal story about how bank bureaucracy cannot be bothered to get him off of some watch list. Everything else in this story has not happened

This person has a personal story about how bank bureaucracy cannot be bothered to get him off of some watch list. Everything else in this story has not happened, and requires a substantial extrapolation of what could conceivably happen. But all the things that could conceivably happen could always conceivably happen. My sense is that Apple is trying to placate some groups to avoid providing more intrusive changes, such as being able to decode iMessages and removing end-to-end encryption. While there is a lot of concern about a slippery slope, one could imagine this is actually a path that avoids much steeper, harder to avoid slopes. Apple’s announcement of a limited program of photo matching does not increase or decrease their ability to scan files in the future, but it’s not what they are describing now, and it’s unclear why they would provide such capability since their brand has emphasized privacy so strongly.