Digital rights organization warns of iPhone photo scanning issues

[iMore.com]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has warned Apple's recently-announced plans to scan photos uploaded to iCloud for images of child sexual abuse material open a backdoor to the private lives of regular user.s

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[Just_Me_D]

This is a bad idea, in my opinion, no matter how well-intentioned it may be.

 

[BreakingKayfabe]

The fact that they’re going to scan on device, using the processing power of the phone I purchased does not fly with me. Intentions are well understood. But I’m switching iCloud Photos off and going down to the free tier of iCloud storage since Photos is a majority of my storage.

I just can’t imagine what other hashes could be added to this by any government in the world. Most especially the U.S. Government.

 

[Annie_M]

I find this alarming!

 

[cornettbr]

I fully support fighting casm but I’m not cool with my phone having a back door. Might as well get a Google pixel and switch it up this year.

 

[Annie_M]

Ok, I’m feeling better about this after watching today’s episode of the iMore Show:
https://youtu.be/YCf5eN83JK8

 

[Wotchered]

Ok, I’m feeling better about this after watching today’s episode of the iMore Show:
https://youtu.be/YCf5eN83JK8

I’m still confused ! this seems to say that Apple is trying to keep it’s hands clean, but does want to virtue signal, and has obscured this by fudging the explanation ?