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> It would scan photos you were uploading to iCloud, not private photo There was no way to separate the private photos from iCloud-uploaded photos. It was all-
by eastbound 4y ago
> It would scan photos you were uploading to iCloud, not private photo
There was no way to separate the private photos from iCloud-uploaded photos. It was all-or-nothing, like Android permissions: “Allow govt to scan all your private pictures, or do you wish to have no backup?”
I was perfectly feasible to design the ability to have private photos, but Apple chose not to. Or Apple, in collaboration with the government, chose not to.
- jodrellblank 4y agoThe wording "scan your phone" misleads by implying that the photos are scanned because they are on your phone, when really the photos would be scanned because you sharing them with a third party, by the third party. Yes it was all-or-nothing, what it wasn't is all-, there was a nothing and that nothing would have kept your photos private. (Yes it was feasible to design the ability to have a local photo store which isn't uploaded to iCloud, separate from other photos which are, and call it "private photos", but that's another matter).