If you have worked on perceptual hashing, you know this just isn't true. It's like someone saying TLS prevents all eavesdropping. No, it doesn't! On a populati

If you have worked on perceptual hashing, you know this just isn't true. It's like someone saying TLS prevents all eavesdropping. No, it doesn't! On a population level scale, everyday people will have their photos analysed by a human working for Apple, and potentially arrested and charged for false positives. And on a world scale, this will be a tool mandated by governments via legislation to silence dissents, trace the origins of leaks, and can even make possession of things like the Snowden documents illegal. The NSA is probably thinking about how they give hashes of their top secret documents so they arrest the next Snowden before he/she gets the word out.