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Just so everyone is clear here: a) CSAM scanning only ever applied to photos being uploaded via iCloud Photo Library. It was never applied to photos that you w

Just so everyone is clear here: a) CSAM scanning only ever applied to photos being uploaded via iCloud Photo Library. It was never applied to photos that you weren't giving to Apple nor any other files. b) The "but they could expand it to anything else" logic is baseless and frankly stupid. Why ? Because they wrote the operating system. They could implement this feature in any of the 100+ daemons that are currently running as root and no one would ever know. c) It was a better solution for user privacy than what exists today i.e. Apple secretly scans your photo server-side. Which you gave them permission to when you agreed to the EULA for iCloud.

lozenge 5y ago
So what happens when China sends Apple some signatures of anti-Party memes? "Sorry, you can't view the actual photos to verify they are of abused children, that's illegal".
Karunamon 5y ago
>CSAM scanning only ever applied to photos being uploaded via iCloud Photo Library Which is everything in your camera roll, and last I checked, you can't pick and choose which pics. Additionally, saving a photo from the internet, or in some apps, merely receiving one (WhatsApp does this, at least), automatically puts it there. So let's amend A to reflect reality: a) CSAM scanning is applied to all photos an average iOS user will interact with if they have iCloud Photos turned on, which is the default which boils down to: a) CSAM scanning is applied to all photos an average iOS user will interact with