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Re:Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning' by slg on Friday August 13, 2021 @06:17PM (#28175349)
Where did "very susceptible to false positives" come from? If the odds of a collision are one in a million that is troublesome if they only need one match. If they ignore anyone that has less than 3 matches, we don't really have to worry about false positives. People who have CSAM generally don't have only 1 or 2 images.
Re:Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning' by JCharante on Friday August 13, 2021 @09:30PM (#28176943)
So why 30 matches before they do something? Why not 100? Why not 5?
Re:Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning' by smnrchrds on Friday August 13, 2021 @09:37PM (#28176988)
I assume because they know the system is so false-positive-prone that even 29 false matches is a regular occurrence not worthy of wasting an employee's time to look at.