Apple can search for arbitrary information on user’s property. If you can search ciphertext, it’s not end to end encrypted anymore. End to end means no knowledge of plaintext should be discernible (sometimes even metadata).
Further, the dataset is set by them, is opaque and can be anything.
That’s obviously a back door in encryption (for government).
This is simply false, if you are referring to the CSAM mechanism.
They state they begin with image data (with a data set they control). In the future, they “can” evolve the scope to anything.
Read the EFF articles. They are well written.
So, they can’t now then.
Too big to listen seems to be what Apple thinks of this matter.
It’s a meaningless example in any case given that Chinese authorities have no problem forcing people to install spyware directly on their devices.
Either of them could turn out to be true, given some evidence.
I'm not on board with what Apple's doing here, but is there any evidence to suggest this statement? From what I know, this is at best misleading and at worst downright false. For example, the scanning is done on user devices so that image data remains encrypted from the time it leaves a users' phone to the time it is retrieved by a user (from any client).