An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning

Re:An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive clien... by nicce on Saturday August 07, 2021 @04:00AM (#28096752)

That it is. I'm bit fancied of the ignorance of the people, until it is Apple who is doing it. And Apple is minority compared to other platforms.

I haven't heard much of complains about Windows sending all your file hashes and most of the files into their servers, what they have been doing a very long time with Windows Defender. It is literally the same what Apple is doing now, but without restrictions.

Google and other cloud service providers have scanned your photos for very long time, by using PhotoDNA. On top of images, Google scans also your emails. People forget and move on.

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Re:An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive clien... by babesh on Saturday August 07, 2021 @04:11AM (#28096812)

I don’t use Windows Defender nor Google Photos nor other cloud service providers to scan my photos. I barely use gmail. I knew that Google was terrible so I have already minimized my use of Google services. Same with Facebook. But Apple!? I guess the dominos have finally gotten to me.

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Re:An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive clien... by nicce on Saturday August 07, 2021 @04:32AM (#28096935)

It is not so straightforward to not use Windows Defender if you are using Windows 10. You must edit group policies in quite deep to disable automatic scanning and startup.

Google Drive includes backups of your phone, so it is not limited to Google Photos. Literally everything that is stored unencrypted on Google servers.

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Re:An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive clien... by oxylibrium on Saturday August 07, 2021 @05:34AM (#28097202)

Disabling all of Defender is complex, but disabling automatic sample submission is easy. It's an option in the Security settings app, and you're even allowed to disable it during first time set up (or were, last I installed Windows 10).

It nags you once, but you can ask it to stop.

Besides, uploading unseen executable code and scanning photos are far from the same tech. They're very different things.

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Re:An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive clien... by nicce on Saturday August 07, 2021 @06:32AM (#28097478)

Every binary is executabale by default. Images are only subcategory. As malware, any file is potential threat. Also, I think disabling automatic sample submission does not disable hash upload, only full files.

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