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Given Apple’s privacy track record in general and in the US in particular, I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt—for now. So far, everything we kno
by alwillis 5y ago
Given Apple’s privacy track record in general and in the US in particular, I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt—for now.
So far, everything we know makes sense and checks out on a policy and technology level.
The rest of the industry scans for the same CSAM in the cloud, which is less privacy preserving. It appears Apple has gone out of their way to create a system that preserves privacy unless you surpass a certain threshold of CSAM while and use iCloud Photos.
Even the feature for minor children on a Family sharing plan is opt-in by the parents of those children; the machine learning to identify potentially dangerous content is on device.
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