“Child safety features” because only a monster would be against such a thing. I seem to recall gun trigger locks being pushed with the exact same phrase (becau

“Child safety features” because only a monster would be against such a thing. I seem to recall gun trigger locks being pushed with the exact same phrase (because “self-defense obstacles” would be too accurate) “For the children” is the last refuge of politicians and conmen. So what’s the bottom line? i’m guessing that scanning (for many things) is mandated by multiple governments, and on-device scanning is orders of magnitude cheaper than server-side scanning. I hope this PR nightmare for Apple continues until the full extent of mandated surveillance is exposed But it probably won’t - Apple’s mistake was in thinking that people would blindly accept this as a desirable feature, instead of just quietly implementing it. Or, maybe Apple did it this way on purpose to expose the issue to public scrutiny.