Chinese Government: Here is the NeuralHash for some child abuse imagery, please scan this user's phone and tell us if it's found.
Apple: Sure we found it.
Chinese Government: this user has unpermitted winnie the pooh memes. Send them to an internment camp.
Apple: Sure we found it.
Chinese Government to some western company/instititution: We have detected unacceptable behavior from your employee/student/client/vendor. Please cancel them, or we will stop funding you.
PhD student at Swiss University posts something critical on Twitter. Chinese intervene at his professor.
Promotion gone with mildly interesting reasoning.
Link to Swiss newspaper in German language.
[1]: https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/hsg-und-china-kritik-auf-twitter-...
We're pretty much at a point where any hacker/leaker anywhere on earth is "found" to have committed sex crimes or have 300 gigabytes of child abuse on their computers.
Eventually Disney will be getting their hands in it to detect copyrighted content and then it's all over.
I'm much less concerned with <random malware> on my device than I am with the governments of the world having access to it.
At least the motivations of the <random malware> are generally monetary and likely don't represent a significant threat to human rights and freedom of speech.
Although with this, I think it's more likely that Disney's executives and/or employees will be charged and arrested before that happens. I mean, with this track record...
1. (Aug 2021) https://djhjmedia.com/kari/disney-workers-caught-in-child-se...
2. (Dec 2017) https://variety.com/2017/biz/news/jon-heely-disney-music-gro...
3. (June 2019) https://insidethemagic.net/2019/06/former-walt-disney-vice-s...
4. (July 2014 / Dec 2017) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/disney-employees-child-sex-ch...
Modi's Indian Government: This opposition leader is criticising us too much. Send him a child abuse imagery and ask Apple / Google to scan for it on his phone.
Apple / Google: We found it!
Modi's Indian Government: Let the defamation begin!
Context:
- Evidence found on a second Indian activist’s computer was planted, report says - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/06/bhima-korega... ]
- Pegasus Snoopgate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppt3FIV2itQ
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28086140.
Amazon: Don't forget us too! [0]
To Downvoters: Are you telling me that this is false? Even worse for the Gmail users. [1] I guess the outrage was already overdue with these tech giants.
[0] https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/06/29/apple-is-now-goog...
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/5/5970141/how-google-scans-y...