Apple sued for abandoning on-device CSAM monitoring tech in 2021

This suit seems to be in bad-faith.

Apple actively pursuited this tech but that backlash from the general population due to privacy concerns was simply too high, so they made a business decision to respect peoples privacy (and their bottom line at that).

I feel for the victims of child abuse but forcing device manufacturers to monitor everyone without warrant is an enormous violation of privacy.

So they wouldn't have been sued if they just never pursued on device monitoring in the first place? Or is this going to be a new requirement for all smartphones moving forward?

Sued for providing false hope? Why is that lawsuit worthy?

I am sorry for the victims of abuse but this lawsuit is nonsensical.

There is plenty of bad things happening inside people's homes, should we start putting cameras in every home on the planet to deter these crimes?

I mean where does it stop?

Let me start with this: I believe that the suit makes no sense.

The problem is that those people see a real problem (CSAM), want a solution to it, but are not open to the fact that there may not be an acceptable solution. Usually because they don't understand the solution and go with "I don't care how it's done; we are in 2024, it should be possible".

Regardless of the merits of the suit, you really couldn’t ask for worse PR.

I don’t know if it’ll be enough to pressure Apple into complying given the backlash that caused them to abandon device scanning in the first place.

There's a part of me thinking the lawsuit was pushed forward by government plants in hopes of getting Apple to revisit the tech.

For all the people blaming big government’s surveillance intent for Apple’s CSAM scanning initiative, here is a lawsuit by the actual victims, and yet the techbro crowd still finds ways to paint it as pure surveillance and to avoid responsibility for the harm and suffering e2ee platforms enable and profit from.