Apple removes references to CSAM from its child safety webpage

Re:Apple removes references to CSAM from its child safety w... by BrazzVuvuzela on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @07:22AM (#29564974)

> The minutiae of where the scanning occurs is irrelevant because Apple's implementation is merely a way of performing the function without giving up the user's privacy (by scanning locally rather than sending all of your photos to Apple's servers for review.)

This is where you and I part ways. I don't think that's an irrelevant minutiae, because it normalizes on-device scanning. This implementation or others may change in the future and opposition to those future implementations will be hampered by "Apple was already doing it" arguments, which will sound fairly plausible to the non-technical public.

Maybe I'm making a 'slippery slope' argument here, but I've become comfortable with such lines of thinking. My cynicism has been rewarded too often before.

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Re:Apple removes references to CSAM from its child safety w... by quitit on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @07:44AM (#29565201)

Yet the on device scanning already exists on every platform. This is how the system makes content rapidly searchable.

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Re:Apple removes references to CSAM from its child safety w... by BrazzVuvuzela on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @07:48AM (#29565240)

The context of this discussion is on-device scanning that reports users to the police. It's tedious to spell this out; you should be able to infer it.

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