Apple to scan U.S. phones for images of child abuse

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Apple unveiled plans to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse, drawing applause from child protection groups but raising concern among some security researchers that the system could be misused by governments looking to surveil their citizens.

Apple said its messaging app will use on-device machine learning to warn about sensitive content without making private communications readable by the company. The tool Apple calls "neuralMatch" will detect known images of child sexual abuse without decrypting people's messages. If it finds a match, the image will be reviewed by a human who can notify law enforcement if necessary.

Tech companies including Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others have for years been sharing "hash lists" of known images of child sexual abuse. Apple has also been scanning user files stored in its iCloud service, which is not as securely encrypted as its messages, for such images. Apple believes it pulled off that feat with technology that it developed in consultation with several prominent cryptographers, including Stanford University professor Dan Boneh, whose work in the field has won a Turing Award, often called technology's version of the Nobel Prize.

 

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Good. Do the same for macbooks etc.

Invading my privacy but I love the guise your using

I don’t care what bloodlines other people are from or what they have in them. They are still not my own

I was going to make a joke, but I don’t joke about child abuse. Anymore.

samsung your move

So, this forewarns the pedophiles so they will turn off iCloud on their iPhones. Good job. I would like to see where in the terms of service for the iPhone/iOS/iCloud this is allowed. Probably in there somewhere they’d better hope.

Bet a lot of Republicans are freaking out and wiping their phones right now. Gaetz Moore

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