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Re:In internal memo, Apple addresses concerns around new Pho... by smsm42 on Saturday August 07, 2021 @03:48AM (#28096681)
I don't see any reasonable way here. Either somebody looks at the images - i.e. they have some underpaid poorly trained grunt to look at horrible abuse images which is probably illegal to look at whole day, having about 3 seconds to make a decision on each - or what they're doing is just a sham, "Did the computer say 'it matches'? Yes it did! Review complete, match confirmed!" I don't see any non-horrible way of doing non-sham reviews here.
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Re:In internal memo, Apple addresses concerns around new Pho... by peakaboo on Saturday August 07, 2021 @04:04AM (#28096772)
People keep trading away privacy for convenience. We won't have any privacy left if we continue to go down that road. People need to start looking at these tech giants with extreme scepticism. Like we do if companies are from China. We need to think about our American companies the exact same way, and stop trusting them to care about our privacy.
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Re:In internal memo, Apple addresses concerns around new Pho... by ptero on Saturday August 07, 2021 @05:40AM (#28097229)
> We won't have any privacy left if we continue to go down that road.

If people look at today's state (phone movement tracking, voice capture, cameras and face ID, etc.) from the mental model of 30 years ago, they would see neither privacy nor freedom. At all.

Sadly, it is not the case of preserving what we still have, if we want freedom and privacy we will have to reacquire them. And a lot of the price will have to be paid in blood.

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Re:In internal memo, Apple addresses concerns around new Pho... by hef19898 on Saturday August 07, 2021 @07:05AM (#28097632)
Before that I thought about dumping Pixel phones for a iPhone. Now I gonna try out CalyxOS on my Pixel 2. Once I finally decided on an upgrade to a Pixel 5 I'll probably give GrapheneOS a shot. Hoping that makes a difference, otherwise it will a dumb phone again.
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