Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery

Re:Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery by judge2020 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @12:35PM (#28076042)

Images are submitted by over 1400 organizations[0] like the FBI and NCMEC, although the inner-workings of the database aren’t public and I can’t find a source or confirmation of every image actually being human-verified. The closest is how the "Child Victim Identification Program" helps identify victims in these images.

0: https://www.missingkids.org/theissues/csam#:~:text=Electroni... (ctrl-f "1,400")

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Re:Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery by dylan604 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @01:02PM (#28076469)

Of all of the discussion, my brain has only keyed in on the child porn aspect. It just now clicked that if a missing kid is in a photo (even if not porn), it could help ID the missing kid. Some runaway at the age of 13 gets photographed in a group of other kids just doing teenager things.

So even if not running hashes against known porn, it could still be doing facial recognition. Wonder what kind of implications that would have for people in witness protection or battered spouses and other legitimately "disappeared" people.

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Re:Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery by the-dude on Thursday August 05, 2021 @01:05PM (#28076503)

Think of the children will erode everything. It is magic.

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Re:Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery by wmeredith on Thursday August 05, 2021 @01:39PM (#28076981)

Appeal to emotion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion

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