> "The fact that you were intending to send that data to iCloud is almost irellevant to the entire discussion since apple has clearly built a system for scannin

> "The fact that you were intending to send that data to iCloud is almost irellevant to the entire discussion since apple has clearly built a system for scanning your files on your device" This is a very dishonest take. They already have a system which runs on your device and processes all photos in the photo library, tagging categories like faces and pets and food and so on. They could have added this new system into that one with much less engineering and design effort using a system which scans all your files. They didn't, they went to a lot of extra effort not to. They already have system services e.g. location awareness or device monitoring and diagnostics, they could have built this new system as something like which would run 24/7 and access everything and be a simpler design, and they didn't. What they did was put it into the iCloud upload feature to be matched by additional code on the iCloud server side. Something which took them more time, more effort, more complexity, and gave the whole thing less power and less flexibility. If this system is as dreadful as all the complaints say, it should be plenty of ways to show that without having to make stuff up. If describing it accurately isn't scary enough, maybe it's not as scary as y'all want people to think.