Call me crazy, but I don’t think corporations should be in the business of scanning everyone’s private data on behalf of “the authorities”.
Too many ways it can go very wrong.
Also, I feel like there’s probably not much of that on apples servers… Like wouldn’t that mind if cloud network be the last place you’d want to put illegal pictures? If I was trying to hide some felony pics or data I wouldn’t be trusting a large corporations cloud services.
This title is misleading click bait for an article advocating for intrusive data scanning, which by the way, cannot be completely automated.
Here’s a snippet of the iCloud TOS which specifically forbids CSA on iCloud.
You agree that you will NOT use the Service to:
a. upload, download, post, email, transmit, store, share, import or otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, harassing, threatening, harmful, tortious, defamatory, libelous, abusive, violent, obscene, vulgar, invasive of another’s privacy…
Further down, the same TOS specifically calls out that such content may be identified or removed by Apple
Again, not defending Apple, but I’d rather not have them or an army of underpaid contractors search through people’s pictures as a type of corporate law enforcement, because “think of the children”. This is a systemic problem which can be addressed without invading EVERYONE’s privacy
Remove locks from all your houses. Locks allow child abuse to go on without being reported.
Why stop there? Walls allow kids to be hurt too. Why not mandate that every human, at their own expense, provides 100% video coverage of their property at all times, on penalty of automatic child endangerment charges.
And obviously monitoring that isn’t free, so we’ll send you the bill shortly.
No, people don’t want this. To be clear, I AM NOT saying that people don’t want the end to CSAM. I would say most people want that. What I am saying is that people don’t want someone to spy on your data to stop it. Spying on everyone to catch the few sickos out their is not cool. Apple protects privacy, and that’s what I want.
Illegal drugs are transported on the interstate. The department of transportation should be held accountable for not searching every vehicle.
