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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 19 ― More than 90 policy and rights groups around the world published an open letter today urging Apple to abandon plans for scanning children’s messages for nudity and the phones of adults for images of child sex abuse. “Though these capabilities are intended to protect...

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 19 ― More than 90 policy and rights groups around the world published an open letter today urging Apple to abandon plans for scanning children’s messages for nudity and the phones of adults for images of child sex abuse.

“It's so disappointing and upsetting that Apple is doing this, because they have been a staunch ally in defending encryption in the past,” said Sharon Bradford Franklin, co-director of CDT's Security & Surveillance Project.Friday outlining why the complex architecture of the scanning software should resist attempts to subvert it.

Apple said it would refuse demands to expand the image-detection system beyond pictures of children flagged by clearinghouses in multiple jurisdictions, though it has not said it would pull out of a market rather than obeying a court order.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

 

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