Exactly! There has been so much FUD, conspiracy theory, and fear-mongering. None of the usual anti-regulation apologists have pointed out that Apple shouldn’t

Exactly! There has been so much FUD, conspiracy theory, and fear-mongering. None of the usual anti-regulation apologists have pointed out that Apple shouldn’t be forced to download and host potentially-illegal material in the interest of ensuring whether or not it’s actually illegal. This whole program is their intelligent solution to protecting as much user privacy as possible while still being compliant with the law. On-device hashing is actually pro privacy compared to in-the-cloud scanning (which all other cloud hosting providers are also required to do).