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I can't agree. Normalizing scanning of files on people's devices is a very very bad precendent. It turns Apple into a low level government policeman rifling thr
by stjohnswarts 4y ago
I can't agree. Normalizing scanning of files on people's devices is a very very bad precendent. It turns Apple into a low level government policeman rifling through your device which would spread to your PC and android devices. Normalizing this behavior would be truly awful, CSAM would come first, then tax audits, anything that looks "suspicious", etc. That is a very very bad precedent, police should only be able scan your device if they have a warrant.
- ec109685 4y agoIt wasn’t scanning photos looking for csam, it was computing a fingerprint of every photo that could only be read on the server if 5 of those fingerprints matched known csam. I can’t see how that is worse than unencrypted photos in the cloud that can be scanned at any time server side.
- stjohnswarts 4y agoIt's a proxy for scanning on your phone and reporting to the government. Toe-mae-toe toe-mah-toe
- YurgenJurgensen 4y agoThe normalisation aspect of this would have been the biggest horror. It would mean owning a device that doesn't do this becomes associated with criminality. "Don't you know that only pedophiles run Linux?"