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Re:Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its survei... by rebuilder on Saturday September 04, 2021 @02:39PM (#28417844)
Cloud scanning would be better, because there’s a clear way to opt out - don’t back up to the cloud. Scanning in device takes a hard technical restriction where they can’t scan files they don’t have access to and turns it into a policy restriction where they say they won’t scan files that are not being uploaded to iCloud.

How long do you expect that policy to realistically hold when some three-letter-agency comes knocking?

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Re:Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its survei... by nedt on Saturday September 04, 2021 @11:13PM (#28421363)
If they don‘t upload there is no information anywhere, but on your device. The system very much depends on the cloud, because the keys of known photos aren‘t stored locally. Photos are already scanned locally for the keyword search and faces,and that could easily be used to search for anything, but so far no one had an issue with that.
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