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by simondotau 1765 days ago
Even if I grant all of the above, I don't see how any of that is impacted by the distinction between on-cloud scanning and on-device scanning of photos which are being uploaded to the cloud.

Surveillance is surveillance. It's a bit more obnoxious that a CPU which I paid money for is being used to compute the hashes instead of some CPU in a server farm somewhere (which I indirectly paid for) but the outcome is the same. The risk of being SWAT-ed is the same.