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Will the high-resolution images be collected and used as evidence? Or just the visual derivatives? That's not clear.
by copperx 5y ago
Will the high-resolution images be collected and used as evidence? Or just the visual derivatives? That's not clear.
- ncw96 5y agoCurrently, most likely. I don’t believe Apple has said whether or not they send them in their initial referral to NCMEC, but law enforcement could easily get a warrant for them. iCloud Photos are encrypted at rest, but Apple has the keys. (Many have speculated that this CSAM local scanning feature is a precursor to Apple introducing full end-to-end encryption for all of iCloud. We’ll see.)