> I believe that they should scan user data in some capacity, because this is about data that causes harm to children. Google, Facebook, and others are already

> I believe that they should scan user data in some capacity, because this is about data that causes harm to children. Google, Facebook, and others are already scanning the images when uploaded to them. We should not be surprised that the images we upload are being scanned. Sometimes for CSAM, sometimes to train ML, and sometimes for other things. Apple doing scanning images that were uploaded to their servers would just be another company doing the same thing. If I understand things correctly, these companies even have some legal obligations to do some of this. > However, I believe that they should not run the scan on the device, because that carries significant drawbacks for personal privacy. This is about where Apple is doing the scanning. Doing it in icloud is on them. Doing it on our phones is an invasion of privacy. And, it builds a system that can be used for other things. It opens a door, as many others have pointed out. I wonder if Apple did all of this to scale the implementation. So it wouldn't have to run on their servers. They wouldn't have to maintain and power them. Poor implementation if that's the case.