[fh9302]

According to NCMEC Apple does not do any proactive scanning of photos.

> Last year, while Meta’s Facebook and Instagram submitted a combined 26 million reports, Google 2 million, and TikTok nearly 300,000, Apple submitted 234. The year before that: 160.

> Apple isn’t a social media company, so this is hardly a direct comparison. That said, WhatsApp, which is end-to-end encrypted, scans unencrypted content such as profile and group photos for CSAM. It provided over 1 million cybertips to NCMEC in 2022; Microsoft sent in 110,000; Dropbox, nearly 46,000; and Synchronoss, the cloud storage provider for Verizon, over 30,000.

https://archive.is/AyuCq

[jdironman]

I'd venture to say Apple probably has a "less false positives" policy than the others. I can't say whether or not they do or do not scan, but if they review incidents with humans and not automated this could be why. They probably know flagging / disabling / reporting accounts incorrectly has a high cost on user satisfaction.