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Comment by akersten | Hacker News Reader

This is all behind a huge, neon-flashing-lights asterisk of "for now."

How long until they try to machine-learn based on that database? The door's open.

Apple previously stored photo backups in their cloud in cleartext. The door was always open. At some point if you are providing your personal images for Apple to store, you have to exercise a modicum of trust in the company. If you don't trust Apple, I suggest you don't use an iPhone.

I don’t even use iCloud but what you suggest is exactly what I’m going to do.

I no longer trust Apple, and I’m going to get rid of my iPhone.

I would argue that in a discussion about privacy, if trust is brought up it’s no longer a discussion about privacy.

Apple never had the technology to do offline scans of stuff directly on your phone. Now they have it. How long will it take, until some three/four letter agency makes them scan other stuff too, since they clearly have the tech to do so, and it's just one "if()" removed, to check eg. who was the first person with wikileaked photos.

Tiananmen square tank man.

The CCP already gets Apple to censor the Taiwanese flag emoji and store all Chinese iCloud user data on CCP-accessible servers in China.

We know Apple presently actively and eagerly cooperates with CCP censors to be permitted to operate and sell in China.

This is tailor-made for CCP abuse.

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