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Re:Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery by myrandomcomment on Thursday August 05, 2021 @01:06PM (#28076508)
Directly said in the article:

“Users’ photos, converted into a string of numbers through a process known as “hashing”, will be compared with those on a database of known images of child sexual abuse.”

Re:Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery by rovr138 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @02:07PM (#28077347)
> The system has been trained on 200,000 sex abuse images collected by the US non-profit National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Also from the article.

‘Trained’ being important.