This is the conclusion that I personally arrived at. When I confronted some friends of mine with this, they gave me some good points to the contrary. Letting A

This is the conclusion that I personally arrived at. When I confronted some friends of mine with this, they gave me some good points to the contrary. Letting Apple scan for government-related material on your device is a slippery slope to government surveillance and a hard line should be drawn here. Today, Apple may only be scanning your device for CSAM material for iCloud. Tomorrow, Apple may implement similar scanning elsewhere, gradually expand the scope of scanning to other types of content and across the entire device, implement similar government-enforcing processes on the device, and so on. It's not a good direction for Apple to be taking, regardless of how it works in this particular case. A user's device is their own personal device and anything that inches toward government surveillance on that device, should be stopped. Another point made was that government surveillance never happens overnight. It is always very gradual. People don't mean to let government surveillance happen and yet it does because little things like this evolve. It's better to stop potential government surveillance in its tracks right now.