This is a great example of people being in a tech bubble. In a short while nobody except techies and molesters will remember that this is happening. Some signif

This is a great example of people being in a tech bubble. In a short while nobody except techies and molesters will remember that this is happening. Some significant number of KP men will be caught, but not the clever ones. Most iPhone users will put it out of their minds and continue using iCloud. The bigger authoritarian countries (China, India) will demand, and receive, the ability to match against illegal images and memes, like Tank Man, Winnie the Pooh, illicit tweet screencaps, etc. No one with power in the West will really care. The slippery slope is actually iMessage scanning, not iCloud Photos. Real time, ML based, it is fully capable of scanning for keywords, the same way as NSA analysts used X-KEYSCORE (in the ancient historical period, before they switched to ML). (Fortunately, NSA (or others) probably won't let it's ML classifiers be distributed, because they could be reverse engineered to see how much NSA knows.)