Apple to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse

> If it finds a match, the image will be reviewed by a human.

This job better come with insanely high levels of hazard pay. I don't think there is a dollar figure that could be offered that would offset the harm that that job could cause. When I say job, I mean contractor receiving no benefits, probably at piece rate.

Now I am depressed. All the tech we make just makes it that much easier to exploit our fellow humans. And our solution is just to exploit other humans to stop the first group.

We once had a friend staying over for the weekend with her 3-5 year old daughter. My girlfriend took my DSLR camera and they took hundreds of photos. I casually imported everything from the SD card to my Apple Photos library without even looking at it. Few weeks later I was browsing Photos on my iPhone and saw a bunch of photos of my friends in bath washing the little girl. Almost had a heart attack. Deleted everything, cleared cache, disabled auto sync, formatted the SD card many times over. Screamed at my friends and they just laughed at me.

But being wrongfully accused of child abuse is probably my biggest fear as a grown man. Especially after watching The Hunt (2012) with Mads Mikkelsen. If I were ever to find a child in distress somewhere in public I would never ever try to help it in case someone caught me alone with a kid I don't know. If I see kids walking on the street I immediately change direction just to not look like I follow their path. I just can't.