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by giantrobot 1776 days ago
> It does not scan arbitrary local content.

Yet.

Before it was "only content uploaded to iCloud is scanned" and now it's "photos are scanned on-device". That's frog boiling that tomorrow easily becomes "arbitrary files are scanned anywhere on the device".

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Only photos being uploaded to iCloud are scanned on device for CE imagery. This is the alternative to having cloud storage having broad decryption ability to do scanning in-service (as say Microsoft, Google, Twitter, and Facebook do)