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> It is not predictive policing. However it's a pretty close cousin. Automated policing.

It’s not policing. This is a mechanism to detect if people are uploading known child pornography images to Apple’s servers without giving Apple access to your photos. That is the only use case for this system.

Yes, if you try to upload such a collection, a police report may be filed, but only if you do this specific thing and it is verified by humans.

> I'm also skeptical that a blurred image will be enough to confirm/deny CP

It doesn’t have to confirm CP - it only has to confirm that the image matches the known CP from the database.