Ahead of child safety group's campaign to pressure Apple to scan iCloud for CSAM, Apple says such sans may lead to a “slippery slope of unintended consequences”
Child safety group Heat Initiative plans to launch a campaign pressing Apple on child sexual abuse material scanning and user reporting.
Wired Lily Hay Newman
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Discussion
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@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
Erik Jonker
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Apple and most other big tech companies understand that “trust” is one of their main assets towards their customers (whether you can actually trust them is a separate question). — Some governments further discredit themselves to seriously contemplate client-side scanning. — h…
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al
Aral Balkan
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Glad to hear Apple has killed its plans to implement privacy-destroying on-device scan and snitch into its devices (although it will make autocrats like Erdoğan unhappy to hear it because they likely had plans for it). — https://www.wired.com/... Here's what I wrote about it a…
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@mpetricone
Michael Petricone
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CDSAM is horrific. We must streamline the reporting process, promote the adoption of child safety tools, and enable increased prosecution of sex criminals. But scanning the personal and private data of millions of online Americans is not the answer. https://www.wired.com/...
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@adamkovac
Adam Kovacevich
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Now a nonprofit group is launching a campaign urging Apple to revert to the original plan. If their effort were to succeed, it could erode the many benefits of encryption. We need nuanced discussion here, not slogans.
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@timsweeneyepic
Tim Sweeney
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Apple's App Store monopoly gives them an iron grip to determine who is allowed to make and distribute apps, making Apple an agent of government repression in places that outlaw many privacy and communications apps. Sadly, Apple slipped down that slope years ago and appears stuck.
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@glen_pounder
Glen
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“Child sexual abuse material is abhorrent and we are committed to breaking the chain of coercion and influence that makes children susceptible to it,” By definition and lack of reporting to @MissingKids then @Apple are lying with this comment! https://www.wired.com/...
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@anthropunk
Dr. S.A. Applin
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I told Apple this in an interview and the PM guy who was pushing it gave feedback that I “wasn't someone he could have a beer with.” I was right about #privacy and Apple was foolish not to listen to me and hire me back in 2020.
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@timsweeneyepic
Tim Sweeney
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A sound move by Apple to resist pressure campaigns to surveil users' private documents and communications on behalf of governments. The scanning proposal was always an abhorrent violation of customer rights. Now do apps! https://www.wired.com/...
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@adamkovac
Adam Kovacevich
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Apple announced two years ago that it was going to scan iCloud accounts for CSAM. Good idea, but several digital rights groups and security researchers noted the approach would have adverse consequences for privacy and security. Apple tweaked its approach.
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@_andyburrows
Andy Burrows
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@Glen_Pounder ... Surely the real story: the privacy hawks within the company won the battle over rollout. The tech is perfectly robust, but it'll need regulatory cover for Apple to push it out in the face of privacy activist opposition. And in the meanwhile...
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@adamkovac
Adam Kovacevich
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Everyone agrees we should do everything we can to fight child sexual abuse imagery online. There's one bill in the Senate on the issue, and another pending in CA. But no one should act as if the answers are *easy." This shows why: https://www.wired.com/...
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@jim_harper
Jim Harper
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“Scanning every user's privately stored iCloud data would create new threat vectors for data thieves to find and exploit.” Kudos to @Apple for resisting mass surveillance pressures. https://www.wired.com/...
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@matthew_d_green
Matthew Green
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Anyway it is not for us to ask why things happen at Apple. We can only be grateful that, for a brief shining moment in this very degraded century, one company decided our phones shouldn't be the vanguard of an AI-enabled police force.
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@matthew_d_green
Matthew Green
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You definitely get the feeling that there are two different versions of Apple. Kind of like the company does one thing during the day and then goes home and has an entire different personality. Someone should do a TV show about this.
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@matthew_d_green
Matthew Green
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Apple in 2023 (left) vs Apple in 2021 (right two images.) [image]
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@andrewcouts
Andrew Couts
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NEW: In a strange move, Apple sent @lilyhnewman its letter responding to a new group called Heat Initiative that's pushing the company to re-enable its controversial iCloud photo-scanning tool for detecting CSAM. Tip @Techmeme Story and full emails here: https://www.wired.com/...
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@matthew_d_green
Matthew Green
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This article with quotes from Apple on why it killed the CSAM photo scanning initiative is the first thing I've seen from the company explaining their decision. https://www.wired.com/... [image]