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They say only if they find 30 matching images, they'd act. So if they find 20 or 29 and don't report them, they are actually breaking the law!! I am wondering w
by Lamad123 5y ago
They say only if they find 30 matching images, they'd act. So if they find 20 or 29 and don't report them, they are actually breaking the law!! I am wondering why they chose that magical number!
- Tagbert 5y agoJust getting a match on the neural hash is not sufficient to declare an image CSAM. It just flags it as a candidate for review. Apple is not required to report it unless it can be verified to be CSAM. there is a multi-step process involving multiple processes and organizations to do so.
- Lamad123 5y agoThey are opening the door for a lot of questions like this. They didn't say (as far as I know) if this 30-number cover multiply upload sessions or it gets reset with every upload. I feel like this number gets reset to 0 each for each upload session. Somebody can deliberately safely upload 29 actual CSAM photos each time. I know Apple is not stupid, but you know the government and lawmakers will ask it for a smaller magical number...
- nullc 5y agoThey think they've outsmarted the law on that one. The system is setup to generate a bunch of false positives on its own, so a "match" which is below threshold may not actually be a match-- apple can plausibly deny it. It's unclear if their claimed threshold of 30 is before or after the false positives they intentionally introduce. I'm going to guess it's before.