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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 cududa on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:29PM (#28079293)
The PhotoDNA platform doesn’t offer the participating organization raw photos, just hashes. The AI part is stitching photos with matching edges together, incase someone cropped them into different parts.

Again, Apple nor any company, have access to the source data, just hashes.

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Re:Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery by jtbayly on Friday August 06, 2021 @06:24PM (#28093468)
My point was that it can’t be “simple” hashes, as that is easy to defeat. I never said anything about Apple having the source images.
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