Apple can already decrypt your iCloud photos, same with google etc. I don’t get this argument as they can already do that.
Y'all are starting to make me more sympathetic to Apple. Their biggest misstep was making these announcements simultaneously without foreseeing how many people would (willingly or otherwise) conflate them.
The only phones where iMessage photo scanning happens are those for children under a certain age (maybe 13?) whose parents who have opted into child protection where the phone scans for nude photos and notifies the parents.
People are conflating these two _different_ but _related_ features and their goals and limits.