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Re:Apple defends anti-child abuse imagery tech after claims ... by CubsFan1060 on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @04:57PM (#28227047)
Yes, it can be turned off. https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/05/apple-csam-detection-di...
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Re:Apple defends anti-child abuse imagery tech after claims ... by petersellers on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @05:02PM (#28227105)
Only if you disable iCloud photos completely. So no, you cannot turn off the feature unless you stop using iCloud photos.
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Re:Apple defends anti-child abuse imagery tech after claims ... by CubsFan1060 on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @05:06PM (#28227154)
Correct. I'm not sure how that's a distinction from "you can't turn it off" though. I believe they've been doing this scan server-side for quite some time already.
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Re:Apple defends anti-child abuse imagery tech after claims ... by petersellers on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @05:22PM (#28227347)
Here's the distinction: I used to be able to use iCloud photos without having my photos scanned, and now I can't. So I have to make a choice of either dropping iCloud photos completely or submit to having all of my photos scanned.

I don't think they have been doing server-side scanning until now, hence the publicity. Do you have any evidence that shows they've been doing this before?

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Re:Apple defends anti-child abuse imagery tech after claims ... by CubsFan1060 on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @05:41PM (#28227538)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7865979/Appl...

I wasn’t able to find the whole video though.

No time to watch, but. https://www.ces.tech/Videos/2020/Chief-Privacy-Officer-Round...

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Re:Apple defends anti-child abuse imagery tech after claims ... by petersellers on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @06:31PM (#28227975)
The article you linked makes a surprising claim, and it contradicts what the EFF said recently about this here - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-diff...

> Currently, although Apple holds the keys to view Photos stored in iCloud Photos, it does not scan these images

It also seems weird that the EFF wouldn't have complained about this before if Apple was known to be doing server-side scanning for some time now.

I also am not going to watch through an hour video, but I scanned the transcript and I didn't see anything that said that Apple currently (at that time) scanned content.

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Re:Apple defends anti-child abuse imagery tech after claims ... by CubsFan1060 on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @06:53PM (#28228151)
I can’t find any articles about eff complaining about gmail, onedrive, or discord doing similar scanning either. All of those services (and more) do similar scans.
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