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by unicornfinder 1589 days ago
To play devil's advocate, I actually suspect the reason Apple were planning to implement this was because they were intending to start using E2E encryption on iCloud photos, but to keep various governments off their back figured they could placate them by implementing this scanning.
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If so, what a monumental PR disaster to not lead with that instead.