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by fbdab103 1165 days ago
We are rapidly approaching that point. Apple is/was/will going to enable on-device scanning for someone's definition of naughty. Not hard to imagine that naughty will soon includes images of Winnie the Pooh, union formation, abortion, minority group X, what have you. Automatic notification of the authorities to follow.

Edit: To be clear, I am obviously opposed to CSAM, but on-device scanning is a privacy violation. Nobody knows what hashes trigger a flag, and they could be updated at anytime without the user being aware.

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The problem is the top-level poster was also suggesting banning apps based on their definition of naughty (and "related" features).