Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: Apple accused of underreporting suspected CSAM on its platforms Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 14:37:55 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 23:37:55 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="224bc05abc031445a18a2d7c58882483"; logging-data="2592853"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1++6VgOCOllxtlsYauT2IGVJB1YhdXqBJU=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:x/G47p+YPlTqHYNfop2dZOhXCQ0= Content-Language: en-CA In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2448 On 2024-07-25 13:47, Andrew wrote: > Jolly Roger wrote on 25 Jul 2024 15:36:48 GMT : > >> And actually, the only metric that matters is the number of innocent >> people whose privacy may be violated. If that number is greater than >> zero, then you can count me (and a whole lot of others who reserve their >> right to privacy) out. > > I'm agreeing with you that millions, and maybe even billions of innocent > people are being violated by CSAM scanning by Apple, Google & Facebook. > > Apple is harming us less than Google & Facebook, but harm is still harm. Apple isn't doing CSAM scanning, doofus. After lots of (unwarranted) criticism, they cancelled their plan to scan images on-device against know CSAM images and iCloud photo storage can be encrypted so that even Apple can't decrypt them.