Re:Expanded Protections for Children
by shawnz on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:16PM
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iCloud isn't end-to-end encrypted and Apple is technically capable of accessing the data stored there. As I understand, they already do server-side scanning for abusive material.
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I'm not an expert in how this works, but I am skeptical that Apple would do this if they had a way of scanning iCloud photos and videos on their servers.
They also confirmed it is only when the photos upload to iCloud: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/05/apple-csam-detection-di...
A generous explanation would be that they intend to add end-to-end encryption to iCloud eventually, together with this new scanning technology as a "government backdoor". A less generous explanation would be that they intend to expand this scanning to non-iCloud media eventually.