[xur17]

> Hypothetical; Suppose that this scanning program only ever did what Apple said it was going to do, look for known CSAM. Would this still be upsetting? I am trying to parse if the blow back to this announcement is rooted in the tech communities' ideal of near perfect privacy, or if instead it's a reaction to what this tech could potentially be used for.

No, because there will always be false positives, which means someone is going to be manually reviewing your photos.

[orange_puff]

To be clear, that would essentially be working as intended. Apple admitted there would be false positives.

So does this mean that no measure to prevent spread of CSAM should be accepted so long as it has false positives? If we are to trust Apple's numbers, that would be every 1/1trillion images.