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> an Apple employee will then look at your (flagged) pictures. This means that there will be people paid to look at child pornography and probably a lot of pri
by rustybolt 5y ago
> an Apple employee will then look at your (flagged) pictures.
This means that there will be people paid to look at child pornography and probably a lot of private nude pictures as well.
- varjag 5y agoThere are people who are paid to do that already, just generally not in corporate employment.
- pkulak 5y agoApple, with all those Apple == Privacy billboards plastered everywhere, is going to have a full-time staff of people with the job of looking through it's customers' private photos.
- arvinsim 5y agoSue them for false marketing.
- emodendroket 5y agoAnd what do you think the content moderation teams employed by Facebook, YouTube, et al. do all day?
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- mattigames 5y agoYeah, we obviously needed one more company doing it as well, and I'm sure having more positions in the job market which pretty much could be described as "Get paid to watch pedophilia all day long" will not backfire in any way.
- emodendroket 5y agoYou could say there are harmful effects of these jobs but probably not in the sense you're thinking. https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/ https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/
- josephcsible 5y agoThey look at content that people actively and explicitly chose to share with wider audiences.
- emodendroket 5y agoWhile that's a snappy response, it doesn't seem to have much to do with the concern about perverts getting jobs specifically to view child abuse footage, which is what I thought this thread was about.
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- CRConrad 5y agoI didn't think that was what it's about... Because that didn't even occur to me. Thanks for pointing it out.
- mattnewton 5y agoThere's a big difference in the expectation of privacy between what someone posts on "Facebook, Youtube, et al" and what someone takes a picture of but doesn't share.
- emodendroket 5y agoA fair point but, again, quite aside from the concern being raised about moderators having to view potentially illegal content.
- alkonaut 5y agoCouldn’t they always avoid ever flagging pictures taken on the device itself (camera, rather than download) since if those match, it’s always a false positive?
- spacedcowboy 5y agoOdd, then, that Facebook reported 20.3 million photos to NCMEC last year, and Apple 265, according to the NYT that is.
- johnny_b_g 5y ago>I'm a Brit Well I guess that explains a lot then - you're probably one of those that also voted for brexit, but now completely denies it - right?
- techbio 5y agoHopefully, in between the moral sponge work they do, occasionally gaze over a growing history of mugshots, years-left-in-sentence reminders, and death notices for the producers of this content, their enablers, and imitators.
- Spivak 5y agoYep! I guess this announcement is when everyone is collectively finding out how this has, apparently quietly, worked for years. It’s a “killing floor” type job where you’re limited in how long you’re allowed to do it in a lifetime.
- mattigames 5y agoI'm sure thats the dream position for most pedophiles, watching child porn fully legally and being paid for it, plus on the record being someone who helps destroy it; and given that CP will exist for as long as human beings do there will be no shortage no matter how much they help capturing other pedophiles.
- hnick 5y agoYes, private nude pictures of other people's children too, which do not necessarily constitute pornography. It was common when I was young for parents to take pictures of their kids doing things, clothes or not. Some still exist of me I'm sure. So far as I know some parents still do this. I bet they'd be thrilled having Apple employees look over these.