Re:EFF Flew a Plane over Apple's Headquarters
by blitzar on Saturday September 25, 2021 @06:36AM
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This guy gets it! Hyperbole is the first ingredient in the recipie, you must stoke fear. I would argue that the CSAM scanning is not 'scanning everything on your phone' and far more limited in scope and capability that the open on device ML photo scanning that has been present and uncontested for many years now. Add in all the indexing that takes place to create the handy search function, now that is scanning your entire device.
Faces, places, selfies, beaches, sport, babies, aeroplanes, swimming, documents etc. all categorised neatly, added to the metadata and synced with the server for you.
The idea that this has 'opened the door' is as laughable as my example, the garage door got stuck wide open years ago. First the search indexing, then the smart indexing identifying people and places and pets. Funnily enough there were no banners flying, slippery slopes or people smashing their 'iSpy' devices when search became a feature.
Since the first part isn't true there is no "slope", so to speak.