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"Big brother" is not what's happening here. At no point does Apple inform a parent if their child is sending or receiving nude photos. It merely provides a prom
by dereg 4y ago
"Big brother" is not what's happening here. At no point does Apple inform a parent if their child is sending or receiving nude photos. It merely provides a prompt that gives them the bare minimum information to understand the decision they're about to make.
Microsoft Outlook sends me a prompt when I forget to attach something to an email. Something like "Hey it looks like you forgot to add an attachment, would you like to proceed?" The prompt gives me two choices, cancel or send anyway. Similarly to the nudity check, Microsoft scans the content of your email to understand if you intended to send an email with an attachment or not. Would you consider this to be "big brother"?
This isn't just a feature for children. Adults can turn this feature on to prevent themself from ever accidentally sending nude pics.
- hef19898 4y agoChecking for the presence of contebt is compketely different from checking and reading of said content.
- dereg 4y agoIn this case, it's exactly the same. Microsoft (and Google) is reading the content of your email, searching for words or phrases that may hint to the fact that a file should be attached. If it believes that you're erroneously sending an email without an attachment, it'll send you a confirmation prompt.
- hef19898 4y agoI never saw it that way... But you are right, how would Outlook know that I want to send an attechment without reading my email in the first place. Still hope Outlook isn't reading the attachment so...
- tibbydudeza 4y agoI presume they use that Microsoft technology to check for presence of too much skin tones in the shape of a human body ???. The problem is if the ML flags something and forward it to a human (even anonymized) to decide on for quality control purposes - that is why Alexa,Google and Apple smart speakers are banned in my house. I only allow dumb bluetooth speakers.
- hef19898 4y agoWell, we have an Alexa. It is always unplugged except when someone wants to listen to music using it. Agree so that a Bluetooth speaker would do the same thing, worth thinking about.
- afiori 4y agoAt least once upon a time the attachment check was essentially a search for the string "attach" in the email body.
- tibbydudeza 4y agoThink a nude is rather different issue from a missing TSP report.