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A comment on Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery. Parent comment

Re:Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery by partiallypro on Thursday August 05, 2021 @02:44PM (#28077824)
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.
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Re:Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery by GeekyBear on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:13PM (#28079057)
Again, the Windows 10 TOS extended that to scanning the local machine as well.
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Re:Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery by cududa on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:30PM (#28079311)
When you download an app it compares hashes locally to source material published hash. This is absolutely no different
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