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I agree that there is a need for such changes to be public and debated - my grind comes from those which makes arguments which are neither factual, nor pay atte
by quitit 5y ago
I agree that there is a need for such changes to be public and debated - my grind comes from those which makes arguments which are neither factual, nor pay attention to the status quo. (Thus leaping to fantasy assumptions which are without basis.)
For example Google and Meta both scan all material that is on their services, both of these providers actually go further by utilising AI to hunt imagery which may not be identified yet. So the idea of this compelling others to scan is false: Apple is last here.
Similar to Google and Meta, Apple's CSAM processes only come into play when the material is uploaded to Apple's servers. The minutiae of where the scanning occurs is irrelevant because Apple's implementation is merely a way of performing the function without giving up the user's privacy (by scanning locally rather than sending all of your photos to Apple's servers for review.)
The scanning process is merely the addition of verified hashes to a system which already uses this same technique to categorise ones photos into searchable images ("waterfalls" "dogs" "bicycles" etc.), because this is an existing system there is no impact to performance/device usage.
- BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago> The minutiae of where the scanning occurs is irrelevant because Apple's implementation is merely a way of performing the function without giving up the user's privacy (by scanning locally rather than sending all of your photos to Apple's servers for review.) This is where you and I part ways. I don't think that's an irrelevant minutiae, because it normalizes on-device scanning. This implementation or others may change in the future and opposition to those future implementations will be hampered by "Apple was already doing it" arguments, which will sound fairly plausible to the non-technical public. Maybe I'm making a 'slippery slope' argument here, but I've become comfortable with such lines of thinking. My cynicism has been rewarded too often before.
- quitit 5y agoYet the on device scanning already exists on every platform. This is how the system makes content rapidly searchable.
- BrazzVuvuzela 5y agoThe context of this discussion is on-device scanning that reports users to the police. It's tedious to spell this out; you should be able to infer it.