That's a significantly naive view of things that stays on first step and utterly ignores implications and possible subsequent steps. Given enough compute, CSAM

That's a significantly naive view of things that stays on first step and utterly ignores implications and possible subsequent steps. Given enough compute, CSAM detection can become part of the display pipeline, whereby the display is checked, in realtime, against some set of known "hashes", effectively providing a limited form of real time tracking of observed behaviour. The fact that it exists, indicates that governments may use it to circumvent E2EE, or as I mention above, achieve so much more. Apple has been known to cave in to China and other countries. If Apple does it, then odds are everyone will follow suite due to external pressures. This has _always_ been the case.