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> This all leads me to believe that there’s another shoe to drop here, one that will allow Apple to make its cloud services more secure and private. > If this s
by cataphract 5y ago
> This all leads me to believe that there’s another shoe to drop here, one that will allow Apple to make its cloud services more secure and private.
> If this scanning system is essentially the trade-off that allows Apple to provide more privacy for its users while not abdicating its moral duty to prevent the spread of CSAM, great.
Even assuming this other shoe drops, then this logic implies that there is a moral duty to implement other types of scans to prevent other serious crimes. Surely Apple shouldn't abdicate its moral duty to prevent murder. There's really not much of a limit to this argument. As long as there is the level of false positives is similar to that of the technology now being implemented, there is a moral duty for Apple to deploy the surveillance methods.
- heavyset_go 5y ago> Even assuming this other shoe drops, then this logic implies that there is a moral duty to implement other types of scans to prevent other serious crimes. Surely Apple shouldn't abdicate its moral duty to prevent murder. There's really not much of a limit to this argument Over 70,000 Americans die from overdoses each year, which is nearly double that of yearly vehicle fatalities. If Apple is already scanning photos and messages, why not save tens of thousands of lives while they're at it by detecting heroin and fentanyl dealers, too?
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- zug_zug 5y agoExactly. How about we put it this way: "CSAM is a problem, but corruption within politics is more of a problem. Apple, morally, really has no choice BUT to monitor all politician communications and police communications looking for certain suspicious or risky phrases." The camera is facing the wrong direction...