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by DJPocari 892 days ago
I wonder if Apple had some understanding of these advancements in inverting image hashes when they decided to drop their on-device image scanning plans.
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echelon 892 days ago
They got push back from the "screeching" minority [1] about their needless and wanton surveillance.

[1] https://www.howtogeek.com/746588/apple-discusses-screeching-...

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rustcleaner 892 days ago
That screeching minority needs to become a belligerently agitated majority...

... in a more perfect world maybe.

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judge2020 891 days ago
What Apple forgot to market was the fact that it was only scanning photos that were destined for upload to iCloud Photos, which most people turn off because they don't want to pay more than $1/month for iCloud storage (or $4 if you happen to have a family).

Thankfully, they went forward with "encrypt everything in iCloud E2E"[0] despite not having a way to detect CSAM anymore, probably much to law enforcement's chagrin.

0: https://support.apple.com/en-us/108756

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smoldesu 891 days ago
> probably much to law enforcement's chagrin.

It's 2024, we have to stop playing pretend. Apple can't even keep your push notifications to themselves, I'm not convinced they do anything "to law enforcement's chagrin" nowadays. Every sufficiently large American business is partially controlled by American intelligence; FAANG is part of that, whether you love them or not.

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