| It is a shift in trust. If my things are scanned on my local device, I now must trust that Apple: * Will not be compelled to change the list of targeted material by government coercion. * Will not upload the "vouchers" unless the material is uploaded to iCloud. * Will implement these things in such a way that hackers cannot maliciously cause someone to be wrongly implicated in a crime. * Will implement these things in such a way that hackers cannot use the tools Apple has created to seek other information (such as state sponsored hacking groups looking for political dissidents). And for many of us, we do not believe that these things are a given. Here's a fictional scenario to help bring it home: Let's say a device is created that can, with decent accuracy, detect drugs in the air. Storage unit rental companies start to install them in all of their storage units to reduce the risk that they are storing illegal substances, and they notify the police if the sensors go off. One storage unit rental company feels like this is an invasion of privacy, so they install the device in your house but promise to only check the results if you move your things into the storage unit. This sounds crazy, right? |