I completely agree. For what it's worth, Apple has nothing to gain with this much of a privacy stir, especially when they're accomplishing the same level of de

I completely agree. For what it's worth, Apple has nothing to gain with this much of a privacy stir, especially when they're accomplishing the same level of detection that other companies accomplish with the simple cloud scanning. While it's possible that something nefarious is going on with Apple and the U.S. government, it's more likely that Apple got really 'big-brained' about this, had a lot of talks of "we want to retain privacy" and the iCloud team pushing against scanning, and so they ended up with this as a "more private" solution.