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Re:Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competi... by gjsman-1000 on Friday August 06, 2021 @07:52PM (#28094181)
Remember that it only scans against a known database of already found content, and does not try to find new content.
Re:Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competi... by nomel on Friday August 06, 2021 @09:05PM (#28094691)
Is this true? The message triggers try to identify nudity within the accounts of minors. Is the notification only going to the parent? Is it stored for possible later use? Are those photos ever reviewed?
Re:Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competi... by noduerme on Saturday August 07, 2021 @12:15AM (#28095637)
Excellent point. The messaging triggers for nudity in child accounts would imply that there is a separate, on-device scanning capability that has nothing to do with hash matching. Taken together with the backdoor for data exfiltration, and considering these come in the same announcement, there's no reason not to consider them part of the same spyware framework.
Re:Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competi... by ohazi on Friday August 06, 2021 @08:01PM (#28094257)
For now.
Re:Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competi... by dane-pgp on Friday August 06, 2021 @08:12PM (#28094320)
Just as "for now" it doesn't try to stop copyright infringement.

Seemingly every aspect of digital technology, from search engines to DNS providers, has been co-opted into the fight against piracy, so I wouldn't be surprised if the media industries started threatening Apple with "contributory infringement" suits if they don't re-purpose this technology for them.

Re:Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competi... by antpol on Friday August 06, 2021 @09:53PM (#28094968)
"it would be a shame if AppleTV+ won't get license extension for that popular <insert label/studio> show, isn't it"
Re:Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competi... by p2t2p on Saturday August 07, 2021 @06:35AM (#28097492)
There's this Apple TV+, a subscription for Apple's originals. I think in relatively short amount of time it'll turn into "It would be a shame if we banned <insert label/studio> from our Apple TV platform"