Worse-the real issue that holed Apple’s CSAM plans below the waterline was the risk that governments would expand beyond known CSAM content-collated by child safety organizations, to other content.
Apple has highlighted the privacy invasion in searching across all your photos in the cloud, that just matching to CSAM databases would be welcome, but does it stop there? And what about the risks inherent in Apple’s technical detail, around false matches and manual reviews? Does that mean our cloud photos on other platforms are regularly flagged and reviewed by desks of manual operators? But turn that around the other way, and there’s an interesting conundrum for the rest of the industry.
