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fastasleep said:

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

Dogperson said:

Not just this company, but ALL the personal info hacks - WHY IS NONE OF THIS INFORMATION ENCRYPTED???????

Great question. Why is none of your information encrypted on iCloud? We know it isn't because Apple can scan your photos for illegal images and then have humans review them before sending all your data unencrypted to the government.

You sure are wrong a lot: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

Data	Encryption		Notes
	In transit	On server
Backup	Yes	Yes	A minimum of 128-bit AES encryption
Safari History & Bookmarks	Yes	Yes
Calendars	Yes	Yes
Contacts	Yes	Yes
Find My (Devices & People)	Yes	Yes
iCloud Drive	Yes	Yes
Messages in iCloud	Yes	Yes
Notes	Yes	Yes
Photos	Yes	Yes
Reminders	Yes	Yes
Siri Shortcuts	Yes	Yes
Voice Memos	Yes	Yes
Wallet passes	Yes	Yes

bdubya said:

And scanning with on-device learning of your photo library for any reason is an invasion of privacy without permission

GeorgeBMac said:

As people migrate away from cable to streaming, Apple TV -- at least a good, quality Apple TV -- is and will be needed more than ever.

In addition, Apple could (and I think should) also produce a Dolby Atmos system that ties into it.   They should also be looking at gaming consoles to challenge XBox and Playstation.

But, Apple seems to be befuddled by the home:
-- Their Homekit doesn't seem to have much interest or direction from management

-- Their Apple TV doesn't seem to get much interest or direction either.

-- Then instead of expanding and enhancing Homepod, they killed it.

Apple has so much cash that they are literally giving it away.  But they won't invest in products to enhance the home despite so much potential there.

But it's also contradictory:  They are investing Billions into Apple TV+   But, what are people supposed to watch it on?  Comcast cable?

macplusplus said:

StrangeDays said:

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Then I assume you don’t use Dropbox, Gmail, Twitter, Tumblr, etc etc… They all use the CSAM database for the same purpose. 

The main take-away - commercial cloud hosting uses their servers. Should they not take measures to address child pornography on them? Not using their commercial service, there’s no issue. Is that not reasonable? One needn’t use commercial hosting services, especially if using it for illegal purposes.

And this is exactly what criminals actually do: they are not stupid enough to use iCloud, they have the dark web, they have browsers and file transfer tools tailored to the special protocols developed for the dark web. Apple has long explained very well that iCloud backups are not encrypted. Law enforcement has (or should have) no issue with iCloud, because they can get any person’s unencrypted iCloud data anytime by presenting a court order. And I assure you, this is almost always much faster than Apple’s surveillance, based on the accumulation of some nasty tokens and the following human review.

So, that child protection pretext stinks. Since law enforcement can access iCloud data anytime, Apple’s  attempt to adopt self-declared law enforcement role to “prevent crimes before they occur” is Orwellian !

U.S. law requires tech companies to flag cases of child sexual abuse to the authorities. Apple has historically flagged fewer cases than other companies. Last year, for instance, Apple reported 265 cases to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, while Facebook reported 20.3 million, according to the center’s statistics. That enormous gap is due in part to Apple’s decision not to scan for such material, citing the privacy of its users.

Rayz2016 said:

 this can be done without telling anyone because the code isn't open source.