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by TeMPOraL 1771 days ago
Can they even, legally, review anything at all? I mean, it's highly likely there will be actual CP among the matches, viewing of which is - AFAIK - a crime in the US.
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That is somewhat unclear at the moment. They don't get to see the actual image in your library, they see a derived image that's part of the encrypted data uploaded by your phone as it analyses the images.

I don't believe any of the information they've released thus far, gives any actual detail about what that derived image actually is.

One might guess it's a significantly detail-reduced version of the original image, that they would compare against the detail-reduced image that is able to be generated from the matching hash in the CSAM database.