There seems to be several misunderstandings in this article. For instance: > Your phone will run your images through NeuralHash, and compare to the list of for

There seems to be several misunderstandings in this article. For instance: > Your phone will run your images through NeuralHash, and compare to the list of forbidden hash codes. If there’s a match, some data will be uploaded to Apple’s servers when you upload the image. Your phone doesn’t know whether there is a match or not. There is no “if match then upload”. The safety voucher is attached to every iCloud upload, not just the matches. This is why Apple can’t just flip a setting and scan all your images regardless of whether you add them to iCloud or not. If they wanted to run this against all your images, they’d have to either upload all your images to iCloud (easy to spot; difficult for them to do without consent) or change the way this mechanism works (not “just flipping a setting”; if they wanted to scan all your images, then why build it this way in the first place?).