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mrstep said:

aguyinatx said:

It's terrifying that Apple is allowing the government to bypass legal restrictions that would have made this type of search unlawful.  I am not defending criminals or pedos but I strongly object to the government having unlimited insight into the photos on personal devices.  A list of hashes is exactly that, and that list could be expanded to anything the government would like as I strongly assume the the government is providing the hashes to Apple initially.

Yeah, I can see issues with:

1) Ironically, there's a headline right now "iTunes Match is not working for a growing number of users".  Clearly doing matches of content hasn't been their strong suit previously, so...

2) Creepy AF for them to start scanning the files on your own device.  If they scan content on iCloud, that's kind of par for the course. Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. all do the same, whether it's disturbing or not. (DMCA takedowns of a video your ripped from DVD at one point. music, etc. - but at least it's something that was pushed to an effectively public place.)

3) Definitely a slippery slope.  Today it's from a CSAM database, tomorrow... is it a PDF of a blank vax card in the database? How about if that card was used to fake a child's vaccination?  Think of the children?  How about when it's the CCP adding images of the Tiananmen massacre to find dissidents?  All it will need is an extra hash or 2, right?  And with the tech there, there's no chance it doesn't get used.

4) Is it really Apple's place to scan the content on your computers?  Really?

I'm assuming this is the "privacy workaround" they've done to dodge other encryption-breaking the government is pushing for, but it's only a matter of time before this becomes a scan of all files, whether being mirrored to iCloud or not, and the type of content is bound to expand.  A bit of general image recognition and it won't need to match that database, just flag what is possibly categorized as problematic (CP, drugs, guns, political content) and upload to the government for review.  Imagine how great this is for "the war of terror", as Borat put it.  None of these tools has ever become less invasive over time. 

avon b7 said:

"Apple Pay "is available to all banks in Australia on fair and non-discriminatory terms." 

Non-discriminatory to banks as long as Apple gets a cut.

That makes it 'discriminatory' for users as they have only one option: Apple Pay. 

That is why my wife refuses to use it. 

Apple is probably being deliberately obtuse on this one. 

Let's see how governments rule on it.