Don't you think that telling people now that there will be a "check" at Apple before things get reported to NCMEC could be a PR lie to keep people calm? They c

Don't you think that telling people now that there will be a "check" at Apple before things get reported to NCMEC could be a PR lie to keep people calm? They can easily say afterwards that they're "frankly" required to directly report any suspicion to enforcement agencies because "that's the law", and they didn't know because that was an oversight? That would be just an usual PR strategy to "sell" something people don't like: Selling it in small batches works best. (If the batches are small enough people often don't even realize how the whole picture looks. Salami tactics are tried tool for something like that; used for example in politics day to day).