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Re:Apple's child protection features spark concern within it... by noduerme on Friday August 13, 2021 @04:14AM (#28166677)
The difference is that's scanning in the cloud, on their servers, of things people choose to upload. It's not scanning on the user's private device, and currently they have no way to scan what's on a private device.
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Re:Apple's child protection features spark concern within it... by strogonoff on Friday August 13, 2021 @05:22AM (#28166990)
The phrase is “pre-screening” of uploaded content, which is what is happening. I'm pretty sure this change in ToS was made to enable this CSAM feature.
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