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Re:Apple’s Mistake by kuratkull on Monday August 09, 2021 @04:20PM (#28121863)
The problem is _not_ on-device scanning, it's on-device scanning and then sending incriminating results to the device maker.
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Re:Apple’s Mistake by nicce on Monday August 09, 2021 @06:06PM (#28122908)
Final result is better than before, because scanning applies only into targets which are ending into the cloud. Content was plaintext in the cloud before (not counting server-side encryption).

With current change, they have "partial" E2E encryption and Apple can decrypt them only if CSAM treshold is reached. If we leave all speculation, this is a great improvement for privacy in CSAM context.

You can opt-out from scanning by not using iCloud.

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