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That’s not how Apple’s system worked. The matching only happened server side. Your device had no knowledge of whether a photo was csam or not.

• mrtksn 4y ago
  Nope. In the proposed system the scan was performed by the device, the entity that evaluated the result of the scan is a implementation detail. Technically it was also Apple that would call the police but that’s also an implementation detail. It’s just your device scanning your files for content deemed illegal by authorities and snitching you to the authorities but with extra steps.
  • ec109685 4y ago
    Your device attached an encrypted fingerprint of each photo as you uploaded it. The scanning and matching happened server side.
    • mrtksn 4y ago
      And how do you think that fingerprint is attached exactly? By scanning your files on your device. Anyway what is the point of this conversation? Are we going to argue over what scanning means? I’m sorry but I find this intellectually dampening. Okay, not scanning but analyzing and sending the results of the analysis to Apple where Apple can scan. So?
      • ec109685 4y ago
        Because you said this: “personal devices become the police and snitch you” Which makes it seem like Apple’s approach is worse than what Google does where they actually do scan through everyone’s full resolution photos on the server doing what they please with the results. My point in making this distinction is that if a company is going to do server side scanning, apple’s approach is far more privacy preserving than a company like Google’s and that point is being lost.