> The problem here is that this implementation really has nothing to do with cloud sync. It is built into the photo uploading mechanism and only scans photos i

> The problem here is that this implementation really has nothing to do with cloud sync. It is built into the photo uploading mechanism and only scans photos in a very narrow way that can’t be twisted into generic scanning. > they could make it scan any media that was sent across the network. Definitely false. It cannot match anything except photos in this very narrow way. > There is nothing beyond promises to keep it that way, Not true. The mechanism cannot be used as a general purpose media scanner. What is true is that Apple could add a general purpose scanner in future, but it wouldn’t leverage this mechanism, and their potential to add arbitrary spyware has always been there and is not changed by this.