> no MORE access than any company already has Yes, Google and Apple are both capable of writing code to scan your device for anything. Only Apple (to our knowl

> no MORE access than any company already has Yes, Google and Apple are both capable of writing code to scan your device for anything. Only Apple (to our knowledge) has written this code. It's a distinction with meaning. For the moment, yes, they are only scanning things that will eventually be stored on their servers. It's just another minor policy change to scan things that you are keeping locally. My hope is that they will delay this until they can announce E2EE for iCloud, which would then at least be give and take on privacy, potentially a net win. As it stands, this is a net loss.