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WhatsApp is worried that Apple's detection tool to combat child pornography may eventually allow private content to be exploited by third parties.

used by WhatsApp. He said WhatsApp had reported over 40,000 cases to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children without having to breach encryption.

He is worried that governments will be able to use the system to scan for content they would like to control since different countries will have different definitions of unlawful content. There is also the threat of spyware companies getting their hands on the technology to exploit it as well. Will this system be used in China? What content will they consider illegal there and how will we ever know? How will they manage requests from governments all around the world to add other types of content to the list for scanning?Apple said its new NeuralHash detection tool would still be able to retain user privacy while limiting the spread of child-exploitative content.

Apple also states that end-users will not be able to review the database, neither will they be able to know if a match was detected. Image hash that does not have a database match will essentially be ignored by Apple.

 

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