> Having said that, technology companies, big and small, are bound in the US to do this. By law.
Law requires reporting CSAM. They are not required to scan for it.
Law requires reporting CSAM. They are not required to scan for it.
They are surely not required to scan client devices, and that was a foolishly, ill-considered plan (that I still would wager they will abandon), however they absolutely must scan iCloud Photos unless they were technically incapable of doing this. US law doesn't say "you go to jail if you don't", it says "you face enormous liability if you don't".
Those are not US companies but I've never heard of AWS, DO, etc. scanning people's storage either.
Pre-Snowden, that was insourced by the NSA.
Except with an iPhone, you don't have a choice.