> Photos that match will be reviewed manually This isn't a protection of your privacy. It's because US v. Ackerman (2016) the appeals court ruled that when A

> Photos that match will be reviewed manually This isn't a protection of your privacy. It's because US v. Ackerman (2016) the appeals court ruled that when AOL forwarded an email with an attachment whos hash matched the NCMEC database to law enforcement without anyone looking at it, and law enforcement looked at the email without obtaining a warrant was an unlawful search and had AOL looked at it first (which they can do by virtue of your agreement with them) and gone "yep, thats child porn" and reported it, it wouldn't have been an unlawful search. Instead, if Apple were to report the existence of a match to law enforcement without divulging the image, which (if the matching is precise enough) should be enough to create probable cause to allow law enforcement to obtain a warrant. The only once a warrant was issued would anyone look at the image. That would be more protective. What they're actually doing just inserts an unaccoutable additional step that reduced your privacy for the specific purpose of undermining your due process by avoiding the need of law enforcement to evade your privacy.