Re:Apple Clarifies Why It Abandoned Plan to Detect CSAM in i...
by gnfargbl on Friday September 01, 2023 @09:40AM
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> You can still fight child pornography in any other way, but when it comes to privacy, you have to make a choice - give people their privacy or look through their stuff for illegal content, you can not have both.
Ah, here's where we disagree.
Let's take a practical example: Why can't the providers perform metadata analysis on traffic externals, and identify significantly-sized closed groups of participants? The providers could then pass those clusters over to law enforcement to take a closer look. Most of the clusters would probably be nothing, or at least not meet the threshold to get a warrant for further investigation. Some of the clusters might have significant participants who are already on law enforcement's radar, but below the line for investigation.
This would be a definite infringement on overall privacy. It would also be a potential step towards improving the CSAM situation. It would not require client-side scanning.
I don't know how palatable this suggestion is. My point is, compromises are possible. This is just one example -- I'm sure there are others. The technology industry is not, I believe, currently actively seeking these compromises.
Ah, here's where we disagree.
Let's take a practical example: Why can't the providers perform metadata analysis on traffic externals, and identify significantly-sized closed groups of participants? The providers could then pass those clusters over to law enforcement to take a closer look. Most of the clusters would probably be nothing, or at least not meet the threshold to get a warrant for further investigation. Some of the clusters might have significant participants who are already on law enforcement's radar, but below the line for investigation.
This would be a definite infringement on overall privacy. It would also be a potential step towards improving the CSAM situation. It would not require client-side scanning.
I don't know how palatable this suggestion is. My point is, compromises are possible. This is just one example -- I'm sure there are others. The technology industry is not, I believe, currently actively seeking these compromises.