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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."

if this story is true, Aple would have the worst case of fork-tongue ever known. Perpetuating surveillance of user iPhones is a massive privacy violation, and we know it won't stop at just loathsome imagery.

I wouldn't be surprised in the least if Tim Cook and company passively make it easier for government like China, US, EU, etc., to gain access to private phone data.   However, I’m mystified that this MIT Professor is apparently unable to demonstrate his theory which he believes all these alphabet soup government agencies can already do.  We’re suppose to believe that governments can readily break the encryption but the MIT Professor and every non-government security expert in the entire world are either incapable or dupes for Apple.   Instead of the ACLU suing Apple for PR, how about just publicly replicate what the governments can allegedly already do.  

Not mentioned of course is the fact that China has long banned all Google apps, Twitter, Facebook,, etc.  This order should have come long ago and strictly as a matter of reciprocity.  

I'm glad I don't pay for Apple TV+ and never will.