Re:One Bad Apple
by tdonovic on Sunday August 08, 2021 @07:27PM
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Because Apple (its employees) aren't actually viewing the images, nor transmitting them. They mention somewhere that it's a low res proxy of the image, or something similar.
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But wouldn't a low res image of CP be still classified as CP ? I guess the manual verification will ve done as a joint venture by apple and the authorities
> I guess the manual verification will ve done as a joint venture by apple and the authorities
Do we know this for sure? And even if it is, this is still apparently illegal under current law.
Re:One Bad Apple
by heavyset_go on Sunday August 08, 2021 @07:33PM
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> They mention somewhere that it's a low res proxy of the image, or something similar.
Perceptual hashes are just integer/byte encodings of images that were scaled down and had some transformations applied to them.
If you convert a hash into an array of pixels and reverse the transformations, you'll get some of the original image that was scaled down and hashed.