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Re:Apple urged to drop plans to scan iMessages, images for s... by UncleMeat on Thursday August 19, 2021 @11:02AM (#28234706)
But people are mad precisely because the CSAM scanning is being done as "frontend stuff".
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Re:Apple urged to drop plans to scan iMessages, images for s... by josteink on Thursday August 19, 2021 @11:54AM (#28235419)
And then automatically reported to some backend, which reports to the police.

That’s a wee bit different from showing YouTube previews imo.

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