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  • Apple details user privacy, security features built into its CSAM scanning system

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    robaba said:
    markbyrn said:
    To quote Apple in 2019, "What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone."  If Cook and company are willing to break that promise, it's safe to assume they won't honor their promise to only scan for CSAM.  As much as Apple's biggest defenders try to spin this betrayal as being noble, CSAM is just the proverbial Trojan Horse.   In 2021, Apple's new mantra will be, "You must surrender privacy under the guise of protecting children."
    Sorry, but that’s BS.  They aren’t  run checks on what you keep on your phone, only what you send in an uplink to your iCloud account.  This is in preparation, I believe, for the complete end-to-end encryption of everything that leaves your phone.  This is also not a case where they are scanning and recording the photos on your phone.  They hash all the content and comparing it to hashes of known material.  Surveillance state this is not!
    Apple needs to pull the check from the device, even if it only occurs when uploading to iCloud. I will never accept this kind of spyware on one of my devices!
    If they really believe that this is necessary they should make it part of their cloud infrastructure (would cost them some $$$ to calculate all the hashes)!
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  • Apple details user privacy, security features built into its CSAM scanning system

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    It's just unacceptable to build a spyware into billions of devices – now that criminals are warned, who are they going to catch?

    I will NEVER accept that my data will be scanned on my OWN DEVICES and for sure I won't PAY FOR A DEVICE to spy me.

    iOS 15 and thereby iPhone 13 is now dead for me.
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  • Apple's Federighi says child protection message was 'jumbled,' 'misunderstood'

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    This just gets more stupid:

    - Mass surveillance of a billion iPhone users for what – now that every criminal has been warned?

    - On the device so that every security scientist knows what happens – no, they don't know if there is more in iCloud

    - Since it is on the device it looks like a first step, the second step could be a neural network detecting images

    To reiterate myself, after buying a new iPhone every year since 2007, I will not update to iOS 15 and will not buy an iPhone 13 Pro until this is sorted out. Same applies to macOS Monterey.
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  • Apple employees express concern over new child safety tools

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    Happy to see that also folks at Apple think that this kind of mass surveillance is completely unacceptable.

    To me it's against the right of presumption of innocence.

    Personally (I bought a new iPhone every year since 2007) I won't update to iOS 15 and will delay purchasing a new iPhone until this is sorted out!
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  • WhatsApp CEO takes issue with NSO's denials of iPhone Pegasus hacks

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    Apple should hurry to close the iOS vulnerabilities that enables the Pegasus spyware to infiltrate iPhone by sending an "invisible" sms (thus just the phone numbers of the victims are needed).
    If they don't hurry it will look like an Apple sanctioned back door!
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