I believe I understand the distinction between the two features perfectly well. Personally, I don't have a problem with the parental control feature in Message

I believe I understand the distinction between the two features perfectly well. Personally, I don't have a problem with the parental control feature in Messages (it's pretty clear what it does and the user can decide whether to use it or not, or the parent for younger kids -- that's exactly as it should be). I do have a problem with the feature where they scan images on my phone to match against a database of images. To be clear, here's a list of things that don't make me feel better about it: that it scans only a certain subset of images on my phone; that the technology parts of it are probably good; that NCMEC maintains the database of images (is there any particular reason to believe the database is near perfect and has all appropriate quality controls in place to ensure it remains so?) There are several issues about this that Apple does not address. A big one for me is the indignity and humiliation of them force scanning my phone for CP. Here's a hypothetical for Craig Federighi and Tim Cook to consider: Suppose we know there are people who smuggle drugs on airplanes on their person for the purpose of something terrible, like addicting children or poisoning people. If I run an airport I could say: to stop this, I'm going to subject everyone who flies out of my airport to a body-cavity search. Tim, and Craig, are you OK with this? If I can say, "Don't worry! We have created this great robots that ensure the body cavity searches are gentle and the minimum needed to check for illegal drugs," does it really change anything to make it more acceptable to you?