[elzbardico]

This applies only to photos that are uploaded to iCloud. Apple is doing to do the processing on the device though, but only for the photos that are going to be uploaded to iCloud. Like other services do. WhatsApp is a Facebook property and decided to use this confusion to hit Apple politically with a low punch. People that should know better prove once again that most people read no much than the headlines and base their conclusions on the tastiest sound bytes they hear.

[bitcurious]

That’s like building a tank and saying it’ll only be used for deliveries. Once the infrastructure is in place on every device to detect arbitrary images/messages on the device the switch will be flipped.

[elzbardico]

iOS is not open source, so, Apple could just deliver the spy payload with another update and probably nobody would ever know if that was the intention. The slippery slope argument simply don't make much sense here (as usual, btw)

[pnt12]

You can keep that secret until someone goes to court or has police raid their house over photos that were supposedly end to end encrypted.

Like whatsapp saying their chat is encrypted, is it really? Well, Facebook is trying really hard to losen this up, why don't they just release an update sending them the keys?

[charcircuit]

The infrastructure for detecting files does not need to be that complex. We are talking something a single engineer can do in less than an hour.

[thw0rted]

If you believe this, then you don't understand what their system can do.

[BatteryMountain]

Facebook still sour about Apple blocking tracking mechanisms, hence the low punch?