Re:The Problem with Perceptual Hashes
by dannyw on Friday August 06, 2021 @11:45PM
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There actually is a man involved: enough similarities and a human will review the photos. Every algorithm, especially perceptual hashing, will have false positives, and at Apple's scale, some people's private and intimate photos will be false positives and be exposed to a man looking at it.
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> some people's private and intimate photos will be false positives and be exposed to a man looking at it
and deciding who gets reported to police based on their cultural views on nudity