Your whatboutism is profoundly unhelpful here.
Yes, other companies are doing bad things, and they should be stopped.
Doesn't by any stretch of the imagination mean that Apple should be allowed to do something even worse.
Yes, other companies are doing bad things, and they should be stopped.
Doesn't by any stretch of the imagination mean that Apple should be allowed to do something even worse.
Keeping that data on their server means it can be subpoenaed and misused.
What I'm getting at is that the things Google and Microsoft are doing are entirely irrelevant to the conversation at hand.
Apple is going to compromise your device's privacy in the name of child safety, and will - invariably - eventually cave to pressure to extend that capability well beyond it's originally well-meaning use case.
Stop bringing up what other companies are doing - it is, as I said, entirely irrelevant.
It is not. Industry practices are entirely relevant.
Apple has announced a plan to scan only those photos you upload to iCloud Photos, and nothing else.
Further, Apple's scans will occur on device where a single false positive cannot be misused to incriminate you by anyone who can get a subpoena, because Apple's servers won't hold any data showing something happened.
Google and Microsoft's systems are much more invasive and much less private.