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Only the safety tokens are generated on your device, the action triggering scan happens in the cloud (just like all the others) and then it goes to human review
by onethought 5y ago
Only the safety tokens are generated on your device, the action triggering scan happens in the cloud (just like all the others) and then it goes to human review, so if it's a hash collision it'd be caught there when they review the images, and they can only review the images that matched CSAM.
I honestly can't find the uproar here. Google devices can face match photos offline... so they are applying a neural net (scanning) ON THE DEVICE! How is that not worse than what apple do?
- mightybyte 5y agoOne is matching a face--yes, concerning, and I don't like it but IMO Google has had a much worse privacy reputation for quite some time--and the other is reporting private data to law enforcement and potentially abusive parents. It's quite a bit different. The difference can also be seen from a customer service perspective. One is a feature that lets you sort according to which friends you were with. The other is a feature that puts you in jail. No thanks. Not gonna pay money for that.
- onethought 5y agoNo it reports you to Apple, Apple report you to police. Exactly like google, they will also report you to the police, just they search your library unencrypted. Literally no difference. If you have illegal stuff only on your phone neither google or Apple will be notified or notify anyone else.