Craig Federighi Acknowledges Confusion Around Apple Child Safety Features and Explains New Details About Safeguards

[nickdalzell1]

I am a technical person. System administrator for 30+ years, programmer for 35+ years. I've developed systems that are still in use today.

I get how it works. I also get how easily it could be abused.

As I've stated before, would you be comfortable with someone installing a camera in your home, with the promise that it will ONLY be used to detect child abuse, and nobody would ever look at your spouse in their underwear? Let's take it a step further... would you be OK with someone installing a camera in your house, and it would only be reviewed if you did something illegal? Always on... always recording... but hey, you were PROMISED it would never be used to spy on you or your spouse, or even your kids for that matter. Hey, you don't do anything illegal right (like, smoke pot, eat chicken with a knife and fork [Georgia], taking a crawfish off of someone else's plate [10 years in jail in Louisiana], have a pet rat [montana], feed your cat or dog less than once a day [Pennsylvania], share your Netflix password [Tennessee]).. I mean, you never break ANY law, right? So why should you care if someone puts a camera in your home?

... Other than the invasion of privacy on a promise that it would only be used for one thing, right?

As far as the texting feature, when does it become Apple's job to be a digital parent and tattle on your kids? A real parent should be reviewing their kid's phone... do you have the password for your kid's phone? Do you review what apps and messages they're sending? Who should monitor the children? The answer should be apPARENT, after all.

Ya know, Judge Judy or Hot Bench would be far more entertaining if folks actually went to court over those ridiculous but still in-the-books laws!

 

[Theo Belk]

Then how is apple going to do a human review?

So, either it's not encrypted, or they have a master decryption key. Can't be both. (just proved you wrong)

Easy. The photos are analyzed prior to upload so they can be transmitted somewhere else prior to upload.

 

[Xtir]

Listen to Craig, he says: you (iphone users) don’t get it, you are confused..

No Craig, YOU don’t get it, YOU are wrong (and confused)

because of the enforced monopolized apple ecosystem, apple created it’s own demise: now anyone, including dubious entities can coerce apple into actions. With this exhibition, apple showes it can create dragnet algorithms for anyone..