Apple is implementing new scans of photos. The apologists are missing the point that they are scanning photos on the iPhone BEFORE they are uploaded to iCloud. They are looking for kiddie porn–now. Oh, and by the way, they’re going to be checking messages with pictures also and giving warnings if you’re sending something that meets a naked algorithm. The iPhone is going to become the ultimate nanny phone.
Apple already took a punt by ending end-to-end encryption in iCloud that would have prevented the government or Apple from being able to wander through the cloud at will.
I just want to be clear. I think that anyone with kiddie porn should be removed from the planet.
But I don’t think that the phones that we purchase should be scanned and searched. That was the reason that Jobs held the line with law enforcement–it’s a very slippery slope.
Unless they walk it back, guess I’m going to have to figure out what my next phone purchase is going to be.
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