> There has to be some incentive somewhere for Apple to do this. They know it's wrong, they know it will be abused. The most positive spin I can put on it is t

> There has to be some incentive somewhere for Apple to do this. They know it's wrong, they know it will be abused. The most positive spin I can put on it is that it has become clear behind the scenes that NCMEC and partners have put enough pressure on Congress that Apple believes that on-device scanning for CSAM content will be soon be required by federal law, and this is their attempt to define the parameters in as privacy-preserving a way they can before the actual legislative language is drafted and can't be changed. Even if all of that is true, I don't think this was the best way to do it and it is a huge own-goal to concede ground before there's even been a public debate about it.