tylersdad

StrangeDays said:

tylersdad said:

StrangeDays said:

“Internet people critical of Apple strategy! Film at 11.”

adhausdotcom said:

What's even more problematic is that it also auto-ascribes the differences in pay to sexism

zimmie said:

elijahg said:

"Confusion" was not the issue. Apple of course would say it is because to do otherwise would

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be an admission that the feature was toxic and entirely contradictory to their public privacy stance. Privacy organisations and governments weren't "confused", they could foresee the potential privacy consequences. Apple knows full well the pushback was due to their public "what's happens on your phone stays on your phone" stance, the polar opposite to scanning phones for CSAM - and the potential for further encroachment on privacy.

Confusion absolutely is the issue. Today, Apple employees have the technical capability to view images you upload to iCloud. With the CSAM scanning, they would no longer have the technical capability to do so. That would be a substantial improvement to the current situation.

beowulfschmidt said:

AppleInsider said:

The EU's plan goes further in that it also looks for organized crime and terrorist activity.

I hate to be the one to say "I told you so", but I bloody well told you so.

When the capability exists, overreaching governments will exploit it.

Spotlight literally exists to index all content on the phone. That capability has existed for over a decade. Why haven't we seen any governmental attempt to force reporting if that index shows any document or message containing "bomb" and "president" or "minister", for example?



I still think they should carve iCloud photo sync off into a separate tool, and make it clear the CSAM scanning is only part of that tool. If you want no CSAM scanning on your device, just delete the ability to sync photos to iCloud. Done. Solves everybody's complaints. (less)