Apple Says Its iCloud Child-Porn Scanning System Won’t Trigger Alerts Until It Detects At Least 30 Images

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Apple announced new details about its plan to scan users’ iCloud photos for child pornography, as the tech giant remains in damage control after a backlash over the privacy implications of th…

, as the tech giant remains in damage control after a backlash over the privacy implications of the initiative.Photos that depict sexually explicit activities involving children, as part of iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 updates due out this fall.

Apple insisted the CSAM system was designed with privacy in mind. The company will use a device-local, hash-based matching system to detect child sexual abuse images in a database of known child-porn photos from multiple child-safety agencies. At the 30-image threshold of matches, Apple will verify that the images are child pornography and will then report users to theNevertheless, privacy advocates have raised red flags about Apple’s plan to scanusers’ photos.

Craig Federighi, Apple SVP of software engineering, defended the CSAM scanning system in a Wall Street Journalpublished Friday. “This isn’t doing some analysis for, ‘Did you have a picture of your child in the bathtub?’ Or, for that matter, ‘Did you have a picture of some pornography of any other sort?'” Federighi told the Journal. “This is literally only matching on the exact fingerprints of specific known child pornographic images.

 

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Sooo basically you are good if you stay at 29? 🤔

Apple will do this by cross referencing the photos with their database of child porn videos *scratches head*

One image is too many. They need to lower the threshold.

If you're a pedo, just keep your collection under 30.

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