Your photos are scanned as a mater of course for face detection etc, and has been for years. This method is far more suitable for the kind of all encompassing surveillance that you seem to be worried about. Did you have the same kind of uproar about that?
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Global Coalition of Policy Groups Urges Apple to Abandon 'Plan to Build Surveillance Capabilities into iPhones'
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No defence of a company occurring, merely calling out unsubstantiated rumours proclaimed as truth, yet based upon heresy and even more rumours.
That was never a matter of absolute truth. Having said that, you can turn off icloud backups to stop this and then the slogan becomes true? A slogan such as this was never meant to capture the spirit of illegal content however, it may be spun.
That helps the iOS ecosystem works together. Turning it off hamstrings the ecosystem. Hmmmm.
This cp scanning is invasive and not needed. It might even encourage new poem that’s not in the database. Google isn’t even this invasive on your device. They scan on server as does everyone else.
It would have only done the hash matching if marked for upload on your iPhone.
The scanning would not take place if the photo is going to be uploaded anyway.
Also, if it’s on the server, the uploads already happened…
No, there are things that are out of their control. It was meant to be with your personal information, not your Internet browsing, cell phone location, 3rd party app data, etc. So the above is spin taking the slogan as a statement of beating the system, but if one actually thinks about it for more than a nanosecond….
Then they shouldn’t have advertised privacy as a selling point. Stop defending a lie.
Your pictures are even more personal than your browsing history or cell locations. Yes I know it scans my pics for faces. This is part of the ecosystem. Take that away and it’s hamstringed. Apple is not the police. Stick to making great phones. Not policing your customers.
It’s clear you don’t understand how the proposal and mechanism is supposed to work.
30 hash matched. Yada yada yada
I understand it. There will be times that a apple employee or someone will look at your pictures.
This is why apple is a 2 trillion dollar company. Their fans twist themselves into knots defending them. This has been a pr disaster for apple. I’m sure they regret it many times over already.
There is no lie.
If you don't want apple to "police you", turn icloud backup off, or roll your own backup solution. But you are not entitled to privacy for illegal materials, that's a lie.
Since the government told all tech companies to make sure they are not a distribution point for illegal materials? (is my guess) There is a difference between "being law enforcement" and "telling a 3rd party they may be illegal material on your icloud backup".
Scan on apples server and no one will complain. Stay the f**k off my phone
Until an update turns it back on anyway, and yes, that's happened to me twice recently -- if I didn't check it, I'd be none the wiser. That really doesn't cover what I want anyway, I don't want the programming on my phone to do it, it's exploitable by hackers and governments.
Every software/hardware device is potentially exploitable. I don't want it on my phone either, but that is not the argument being promulgated.