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According to Apple, their CSAM only applies to iCloud and would only need the photo at the moment of uploaded

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Expanded_Protections_...

Yeah they retracted the plans to scan locally on device as I may remember. Somehow, I remember it as being reported exactly in that connection "csam & on device" before imgvideo-files are being sent and encrypted in messengers. Intercepting later can't be easily done.. They retracted and said after criticism "we do it on iCloud".

Then a link to be found on goog or few comments further down, says, they wanted to do it on iCloud. But everyone is going rage mode. So they retracted and wanted to do it with more "privacy" on device.. and then, the link also say, they created an API to filter what for example kids should not see or send and app developers can use it.

iCloud scanning is ok with me and my privacy advisor. There are bad guys out there.

Surely the corporation that built the on-device scanning and recognition that runs on your opaque little computer box to find pictures of your dog wouldn't lie or "accidentally" keep the csam scanning running on the device too?

And certainly the corporation couldn't be be coerced by the government that's built the largest surveillance apparatus in human history to keep the csam feature running on billions of devices?

Yes, the corporation can be trusted.

Trust, but check too. Like in a relationship too :)

The government / the law is the problem. The similar in China. And in Europe is planned: you have to make it possible that we read E2E encrypted messages, if a judge say so. Lol

So it's not about the company(s) but rather about the forced compliance with laws

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