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by mtrovo 1773 days ago
i think the remote execution with a remote hash database is the key part thay you need to focus. Checking for faces is something that doesn't need much information outside your phone itself.

What Apple is proposing is basically adding a feature to scan any user's phone for a collection of hashes. Even if they say they will only use this for CSAM this sends a strong message to all government agencies around the world that the capability is over there. Maybe for US citizens this doesn't sound dangerous but if I was a minority or a critic of the government on a more authoritarian country I would jump ship from Apple products right away.