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Re:Apple kills plans to scan for CSAM in iCloud by mrtksn on Thursday December 08, 2022 @02:23AM (#33905194)
The fingerprinting doesn't happen by magic, your device analyses your photos and sends the results to Apple for control and Apple alert the authorities once enough matches happen because once enough matches happen your photos are decrypted for human inspection.

Inconsequential implementation details. Your device still acts as a snitch for whatever the authorities are looking for. Today looking for CSAM match tomorrow can be environmentalism, abortion, meat products etc - depending on how the politics evolve.

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Re:Apple kills plans to scan for CSAM in iCloud by ec109685 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @02:45AM (#33905339)
Apple’s severs are the snitches and they can only snitch if you upload five matching fingerprints.

Fine to think that scanning for csam is wrong, but the fact that it’s based on fingerprints sent to the cloud doesn’t make their scheme worse than Google who has access to unencrypted photo data to do whatever they want with (as argued by many in this thread).

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