IMO (ignoring the child porn hysteria) the whole thing is more reasonable if there is a clear distinction between iPhone the product and iCloud the service: You

IMO (ignoring the child porn hysteria) the whole thing is more reasonable if there is a clear distinction between iPhone the product and iCloud the service: Your phone is not monitored, but you are required to run this dodgy client side thing to use iCloud. If iCloud had an open protocol, we could even imagine some sort of fancy zero-knowledge proof saying an e2e-image corresponds to the magic child porn hash. The irony is thaht it's exactly Apple's insistence on bluring the line between products and services which make it not OK, and thus bites them in ass!