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If they were scanning images that were uploaded to icloud on Apple's servers, no one would care. iCloud is not encrypted and Apple provides governments access t

If they were scanning images that were uploaded to icloud on Apple's servers, no one would care. iCloud is not encrypted and Apple provides governments access to iClod data, everyone knows that, and other cloud providers already scan content for CSAM material. The difference is that Apple is doing this scanning on your phone/computer. Right now, they say that only images that uploaded to iCloud will be scanned, but what's to stop them from scanning other files too? There's been a lot of pushback because this is essentially a back door into the device that governments can abuse.

gowld 5y ago
How can Apple scan encrypted photos?
- anon9001 5y ago
  Apple has the keys to decrypt them.
- frosted-flakes 5y ago
  I should have said, "iCloud is not end-to-end encrypted". Apple has full access to everything you upload to iCloud, because they control the encryption keys, not you.
Joeri 5y ago
Apple can do anything they want on every iphone, always have, and always will. Whether this feature exists or not changes that in no way, their technical ability to snoop through everyone’s stuff is the same. So far they’ve shown restraint with that ability. I think what people are getting riled up about is not the technical ability, it’s the lack of restraint, the willingness to search through everyone’s personal stuff on their phones. This is like the cops sending a drug-sniffing dog into everyone’s home once a day, with the excuse that it is privacy-preserving because no human enters the premises, and that only truly bad people will get caught. There is a difference between scanning in the cloud and scanning on device. One is looking through your stuff after you’ve stored it in a storage unit, and the other is looking through your stuff while it is still in your home. Apple’s excuse is that you were going to move it anyway, but somehow that doesn’t actually excuse things.

gowld 5y ago

How can Apple scan encrypted photos?

anon9001 5y ago
Apple has the keys to decrypt them.
frosted-flakes 5y ago
I should have said, "iCloud is not end-to-end encrypted". Apple has full access to everything you upload to iCloud, because they control the encryption keys, not you.

Joeri 5y ago

Apple can do anything they want on every iphone, always have, and always will. Whether this feature exists or not changes that in no way, their technical ability to snoop through everyone’s stuff is the same. So far they’ve shown restraint with that ability. I think what people are getting riled up about is not the technical ability, it’s the lack of restraint, the willingness to search through everyone’s personal stuff on their phones. This is like the cops sending a drug-sniffing dog into everyone’s home once a day, with the excuse that it is privacy-preserving because no human enters the premises, and that only truly bad people will get caught. There is a difference between scanning in the cloud and scanning on device. One is looking through your stuff after you’ve stored it in a storage unit, and the other is looking through your stuff while it is still in your home. Apple’s excuse is that you were going to move it anyway, but somehow that doesn’t actually excuse things.