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The concern is less about outing people with CSAM and more about Apple building a powerful tool for government surveillance that will most certainly be abused b
by xvector 5y ago
The concern is less about outing people with CSAM and more about Apple building a powerful tool for government surveillance that will most certainly be abused by countries like China and Saudi Arabia when they request that politically dangerous images be added to the database if Apple wants to continue business in their country.
It is incredibly myopic of Apple to implement this feature. You must consider, as an engineer, how your constructions will be abused and used for bad as well as good.
- simondotau 5y agoThis isn't a powerful tool, it's more akin to a rudimentary hash check. It's not going to match photos that aren't already known to authorities. And any time a user is flagged, the material in question is sighted by an Apple employee before a decision is made whether to forward it onto the relevant authorities.
- dmitrygr 5y agoOk, so what stops the CCP from submitting hashes of photos of the "tank man" to this hash set? And then jailing all those reported to possess it?
- Klonoar 5y agoWhat's stopping them already...? It operates on iCloud photos. Those are already scanned. If a nation state wanted to flex this before they could have done so.
- dmitrygr 5y agoSame reason you do not sue someone for patent infringement until it is too late for them to turn back?
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- meowster 5y agoThat's a poor argument, and possibly some kind of fallacy. 'No one has done it before, so they probably won't do it in the future now that it we made it easier.'
- Jolter 5y agoIt’s not easier though. They moved the scanning onto the device instead of doing it server side. That all.
- simondotau 5y agoBecause when the Apple employee who reviews the flagged accounts sees pictures of Tank Man and not CSAM, they won't forward them on.
- xvector 5y agoUnless their business is threatened
- simondotau 5y agoWhat was stopping Apple from being threatened with the exact same threats three years ago?