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As much as I oppose this, calling this the “biggest breach of the dam for the confidentiality of communication that we have seen since the invention of the Internet” is a joke. I can see how apple ‘thinks’ everyone is misunderstanding it. Other service providers have implemented these measures (apples is the least invasive) already a long time ago, and nobody seems to care with them.

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Apple is installing spyware on devices you own and sending your data to law enforcement. This is a major breach.

> Apple is installing spyware on devices you own

I don't get it. Have they hacked your phone? In that case isn't that illegal?

The real answer is that it was never "your" phone. It was Apple's. They are installing spyware on their own phones. There is no "breach".

The solution is simple, buy a phone that you really own. Don't rent one from Apple.

Other service providers. Meaning when the data goes through their hands. This is different.

There's an awful lot of Apple fans out there over this in the "bargaining" phase of grief with posts like this.

If someone pitched you a Linux kernel which did this it would forks and outrage.

Citation for pervasive content scanning?

PhotoDNA: "is an image-identification technology used for detecting child pornography and other illegal content which is reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) [...] It is used on Microsoft's own services including Bing and OneDrive, as well as by Google's Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, Adobe Systems, Reddit, Discord and the NCMEC, to whom Microsoft donated the technology." [1]

I'm (almost) certain any Google service will tag CSAM for reports and will also hash content it deems illegal for the NCMEC too [2], so I wouldn't be surprised if Google Photos already did something like this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA

[2] https://transparencyreport.google.com/child-sexual-abuse-mat...

On their property. Nobody is doing it on someone else's property.

My phone is not a service provider.

Even funnier coming from places like the EU, which allow govt access to all sorts of communications.

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