> What Apple came up with was essentially a "privacy preserving" backdoor As opposed to Google trying to have parents arrested for seeking medical care for the

> What Apple came up with was essentially a "privacy preserving" backdoor As opposed to Google trying to have parents arrested for seeking medical care for their children during the pandemic lockdown? > His wife called an advice nurse at their health care provider to schedule an emergency consultation for the next morning, by video because it was a Saturday and there was a pandemic going on. The nurse said to send photos so the doctor could review them in advance. With help from the photos, the doctor diagnosed the issue and prescribed antibiotics, which quickly cleared it up. Because technology companies routinely capture so much data, they have been pressured to act as sentinels, examining what passes through their servers to detect and prevent criminal behavior. Child advocates say the companies’ cooperation is essential to combat the rampant online spread of sexual abuse imagery. But it can entail peering into private archives, such as digital photo albums — an intrusion users may not expect — that has cast innocent behavior in a sinister light in at least two cases The Times has unearthed. “I knew that these companies were watching and that privacy is not what we would hope it to be,” Mark said. “But I haven’t done anything wrong.” The police agreed. Google did not. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil... That's not just scanning things you upload to a public facing website, that's scanning everything on the device.