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by anon9001 1769 days ago
> Every single false positive that makes it into the news is a huge loss, which strongly incentivizes them to avoid that.

Just to be clear, "false positive" in this case means an innocent person is accused of trafficking in child sexual abuse material. It's likely they will be raided.

Sure, that's bad if you're Apple, but it's a lot worse if you're the alleged predator.