There’s a hard line and a big difference between known microbiology and theoretical microbiology.
I don't think it's a matter of compute. Even taking compute into the equation, this will cost most users maybe $0.01 per year in compute costs --- its some basic math being performed only during upload to iCloud. If he's to be believed, Craig suggested that they have been working through a way to do this for a long time, and they finally found a way to increase user privacy while still being able to check for CSAM. It's a nuanced argument, but scanning your entire library's actual photos in the cloud (Apple is looking at your actual photos in this case) vs. scanning locally (Apple is not directly looking at your photos) to create hashes to match against known CSAM cuts out a lot of Apple looking at your photos --- iOS has already been scanning all of your photos for over a decade, now they scan in a new way to create a hash during the upload-to-iCloud pipeline to check against CSAM hashes, so that the only reason they will look at any of your photos (and even then, only a derivative), would be if you are flagged for uploading >= 30 photos containing know CSAM.
The algorithm's reliance on the intersection of hashes from multiple sovereign jurisdictions makes this a non sequitur.
Perhaps some good news: if you weren't using iCloud Photos before (implied by you not giving them access to your data), then you can continue to not use iCloud Photos and this system will not run in any way.
Wow, let's equate those who are concerned with privacy to anti-vacxers. Because that makes total sense...
It Generated from known database image entries where the content is known to the national Institute of protecting exploited children so you would have to be a conspiracy theorist that people are governments will start hacking that database when this is the same database that has been used by every single tech company since 2001. Where was this concern trolling for 20 years . Suddenly it’s a concern if Apple does it ?
Since you don't believe me, this is from Apple's privacy chief, Erik Neuenschwander:
Apple Privacy Chief Explains 'Built-in' Privacy Protections in Child Safety Features Amid User Concerns
Apple's Head of Privacy, Erik Neuenschwander, has responded to some of users' concerns around the company's plans for new child safety features that will scan messages and Photos libraries, in an interview with TechCrunch. When asked why Apple is only choosing to implement child safety...forums.macrumors.com
Again it is happening on your Apple device scanning your personal photos, and again you can’t trust their bs because you don’t have access to the source code and algorithm.
It used to happen on Apples servers where Apple would scan all of your personal photos. Now it happens only when you're uploading to iCloud on your device, where your device scans your photos (instead of Apple), generates hashes, and only allows Apple to see derivatives of your photos if you have >= 30 photo hashes matching child porn in your upload.
To be fair, none of us has ever had their source code, so they could have full-scale surveillance running already, able to look for things a lot easier than this convoluted algorithm does.
Hmm, interesting observation, Cook is indeed the PR man when it comes Apple privacy. Have they figured out that the more they discuss this in public, the worse it'll get for them. I think they might want to bury the PR on this, and just proceed with it, hoping the public noise dies down.
So you're happier with Apple looking at all of your personal photos over your device protecting you from that mass surveillance?
Full scale surveillance in the background? If so, then it'd be a super smart thing for them to divulge a little bit of how they've been doing that, wouldn't it. OMGoodness.
Exactly this --- this whole spiel about user privacy has been a facade so that more people will buy into the system, just so they can slowly rip back the veil of what they've been doing all along: inspecting your selfies for MAGA hats.
It’s not and your inability to see the difference shows how open minded you approach the topic.
It’s not about that. It’s about opening that Pandora box. And about how this system is going to “expand and evolve”. This is pure China stuff right here. And it sucks because I love Apple. I even still have my Apple IIc. But unfortunately this is the end of the line for me.
Thats actually much much worse for me. Why would I want a foreign government reviewing my photos?
So I take it you have been outraged when iPhone AI is scanning your private non iCloud images for what type of
The issue with most of the posts like this --- "I used to love Apple, but not anymore" --- is that what was it that made you love Apple? Was it their "promise" of privacy before? If so, you should take a gander at what they're actually claiming to have done here. If you did trust them to some degree before, then look at it closely without an emotional response. If what they've done is as they've described, then this is an incredibly secure and privacy-centric way to provide iCloud Photos storage. Prior to this, all your photos were free game for scanning. Now, it's only if you're uploading child porn.
