Re:Germany opposes EU plans for client-side scanning
by jodrellblank on Saturday March 04, 2023 @02:40PM
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The wording "scan your phone" misleads by implying that the photos are scanned because they are on your phone, when really the photos would be scanned because you sharing them with a third party, by the third party. Yes it was all-or-nothing, what it wasn't is all-.
(Yes it was feasible to design the ability to have a local photo store which isn't uploaded to iCloud, separate from other photos which are, and call it "private photos", but that's another matter).
There was no way to separate the private photos from iCloud-uploaded photos. It was all-or-nothing, like Android permissions: “Allow govt to scan all your private pictures, or do you wish to have no backup?”
I was perfectly feasible to design the ability to have private photos, but Apple chose not to. Or Apple, in collaboration with the government, chose not to.