Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery

One disturbing thought in all of this is the image dataset used to train the neural net.

> The system has been trained on 200,000 sex abuse images collected by the US non-profit National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

I would never want to be a developer working with that dataset of images. I can't imaging testing that software for effectiveness!

I just found that there is an ongoing discussion on a similar article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28075021

You may have paid for the phone, but you are not its owner - it answers to a different master.