[flaxton]

I’m not sure why he is singling out Apple. All the services scan cloud content for child porn, like Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc.

Apple is not looking at images, it makes a hash of the images and then looks to see if they match known child porn. Only it there is an excessive amount (30 images is what I read previously) do they do anything.

There is a lot of evil in this world, including child porn, and up to this point not a whole lot is being done about it.

I think this is a good step.

Do I want them look for anything further, no, of course not.

But as I said, Apple isn’t alone in this. Google is reported to censor user documents in the Google Cloud. That to me is far, far worse than what Apple is doing.

You’re safest on an Apple device, far more than Windows or Android, but people single out Apple.

I just don’t get it.

[another_story]

You really can't see the problem with collecting data on the images stored on your personal devices? Google doesn't plan to scan your personal files on your own device and then call law enforcement if it finds something suspicious.

[tinus_hn]

Neither does Apple, this is about files you are sending through their services.

Google can do the check on their servers because they can see the contents of your files. Apple has to do the check on your device because they can’t. But they are not checking nor have they announced plans to check random files on your device.

[kjagiello]

Isn’t Apply going to only scan the images that are about to be uploaded to iCloud? If so, I have a difficult time seeing how it differs from what Google is doing. Google scans what you’ve uploaded, Apple scans what you are about to upload.

[angulardragon03]

Yes.

People give Apple a lot of flak for the fact that Apple holds encryption keys for iCloud Photos (because obviously they do CSAM scanning server-side), but now that Apple is taking steps to ensure that they doesn’t hold these keys, they take flak again.

If you don’t use iCloud photos, this change doesn’t affect you. If you use iCloud photos already, nothing changes for you except where in the process the scanning takes place. Your phone already scans all your photos while your phone is asleep and charging to classify them, so this isn’t really much more than it already does.