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Assuming they become very clear about advertising what they are doing and whether your data is stored locally or in their cloud, I might be okay with this. Havi
by blacktriangle 5y ago
Assuming they become very clear about advertising what they are doing and whether your data is stored locally or in their cloud, I might be okay with this. Having a vendor scanning my own personal device is downright terrifying to the point of walking away from iOS full stop. However the same logic can be applied to Apple's servers, and I think has serious implications for how we view cloud services going forward. If a company signs up to host my content, doesn't it make sense they would like to examine that content to make sure they are not breaking any laws simply by being in possession of said content?
The real answer is the same it's always been, we need to abandon the cloud in favor of going back to self-hosting and bring back the fully distributed internet, the problem is just getting technology to the point where doing so is easy enough for non-technical users.
- CubsFan1060 5y agoThis is already done by quite a few places. Take a look at PhotoDNA. I believe at least OneDrive and Gmail have been confirmed to do this same scanning. For reference, from 2014: https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/06/why-the-gmail-scan-that-led-to-a-mans-arrest-for-child-porn-was-not-a-privacy-violation/ https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/06/why-the-gmail-scan-that-le...
- jliptzin 5y agoThey scan material already on servers they own, I don't think anyone is surprised about this. If you don't want anyone seeing or scanning your data, don't push it to the cloud. Apple's new policy of analyzing your data before it even gets to their cloud would break that paradigm.