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In every thread about this, someone makes this same false assumption: no, Apple is not scanning for naked children or children in pain. It's generating a hash t
by judge2020 5y ago
In every thread about this, someone makes this same false assumption: no, Apple is not scanning for naked children or children in pain. It's generating a hash to be compared against hashes of NCMEC-verified CSAM pictures (and while some HN commenters claim the DB contains non-CSAM, that has not been verified nor ever reported on by a news publication) and it does indeed only scan photos destined for iCloud Photos (which I theorize is the only part keeping this system legal[0]).
0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28112982 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28112982
- zionic 5y ago>that has not been verified nor ever reported on by a news publication) How could it be? The list is literally property of the secret police, you can't know what's on it. No one can audit it except the police themselves.
- judge2020 5y agoAuditing it would mean looking at CSAM, which is illegal. If it was widespread, I would expect at least one of the manual reviewers that are able to legally view the CSAM would contact major publications (under the promise of staying anonymous) and whistleblow on this issue. : To be clear, I'd expect whistleblowing if these manual reviewers were tasked to 'accept' CSAM submissions that aren't CSAM.
- zionic 5y agoYou're essentially saying the FBI will audit themselves and find they did something wrong, then fix it.