Re:Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery
by partiallypro on Thursday August 05, 2021 @02:44PM
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Again, that is not the same as scanning a local machine for it. That is all things that are on Microsoft's own servers or in their search results. Microsoft, Google, Cloudflare all have features like this. It's not the same as scanning local machines.
>The system that scans cloud drives for illegal images was created by Microsoft and Dartmouth College and donated to NCMEC. The organization creates signatures of the worst known images of child pornography, approximately 16,000 files at present. These file signatures are given to service providers who then try to match them to user files in order to prevent further distribution of the images themselves, a Microsoft spokesperson told NBC News. (Microsoft implemented image-matching technology in its own services, such as Bing and SkyDrive.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/technolog/your-cloud-drive-really-pr...
There was another round of outrage when the Windows 10 TOS extended this to local storage.
It also has the use case of scanning for DRM violations. (ripped mp3 files or movies)