> Someone who posesses an action movie likes action movies, while someone who posesses child porn likes child porn.

Unless it's planted. [0] Or sent to you. [1] Or (farther out there) happens to be embedded on a site you visited and ends up in your browser cache.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/world/europe/vladimir-put...

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/nyregion/alex-jones-sandy...

It only scans images in your iCloud Photo Library. Not paying for iCloud? No scanning. Not in your photo library? No scanning. And even then, only for known content, not new content.

Conveniently, iOS 15 also syncs images from your messages and many other places into your photos. Whether this will put that file in your iCloud Photo library, I do not know.

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/see-photos-shared-with-you-...

On top of that, at this stage you are right. How long before they move it to every file in your device's storage "because of the children!"

So the attacker only needs to get access to your iCloud. Your iPhone will happily sync down photos uploaded elsewhere.

You don't have to be paying for iCloud, either. There's a free tier, so I'd imagine almost all iPhones are using some tier of it.

iCloud account break-ins aren't exactly rare. An accusation, even if false, could ruin an innocent person's life.

Not only is there a free tier, but the iPhone defaults are cleverly configured so that you quickly fill it up with random junk on your phone, and feel pressured into paying for more iCloud storage, because the default sync behavior is so non-obvious, and the settings to disable it are buried.

I know multiple people (most of them in their 50s or older) who started paying for iCloud because they thought it was their only option.

> There's a free tier, so I'd imagine almost all iPhones are using some tier of it.

i was quite surprised to see this was the default or at least was setup unknowingly to me.

If this was going to happen, it would have already happened on Android, Gmail, OneDrive, or any of dozens of services which already do what Apple is now doing.

Or are you saying that malicious activity is only interesting if it was on an Apple device?

You can have videos of somebody actually getting killed and it's not a crime. Reddit killed the /r/watchpeopledie subreddit, but it wasn't illegal to go on.

Until people are actively encouraging people dying for people getting killed by paying for gladiator matches, I agree with you it's not the same thing, but I don't think the person you're answering to is talking about action movies.

> You can have videos of somebody actually getting killed and it's not a crime.

yet

You realize if this is as problematic as we are talking about and peoples lives are ruined from false positives it will create a political movement that will make this illegal. Stop trying to lobby companies and lobby for politicians that will rein this shit in.