Child advocacy group Heat Initiative is starting a $2M US ad campaign calling on Apple to detect, report, and remove child sexual abuse materials from iCloud
https://www.wired.com/... Rhys Morgan / @rhysmorgan@mastodon.social : @lapcatsoftware So clear that office politics played a part in this. Just baffling they ever announced it. Erik Jonker / @ErikJonker@mastodon.social : 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. — https://www.wired.com/... … Aral Balkan / @aral@mastodon.ar.al : 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 at the time: … X: Meredith Whittaker / @mer__edith : Apple's statement is the death knell for the idea that it's possible to scan everyone's comms AND preserve privacy. Apple has many of the best cryptographers + software eng on earth + infinite $. If they can't, no one can. (They can't. No one can.) https://www.wired.com/... Matthew Green / @matthew_d_green : Heat Initiative (mentioned in previous tweets) has raised $2m to run a pressure campaign against Apple in order to convince the company to scan your photos. https://www.nytimes.com/... Matthew Green / @matthew_d_green : “Next week, the group will release digital advertisements on websites popular with policymakers in Washington, such as Politico. It will also put up posters across San Francisco and New York that say: “Child sexual abuse material is stored on iCloud. Apple allows it.” Carl Szabo / @carlszabo : Good for Apple to pushback on government demands to scan all of our photos. Stopping child exploitation must be a priority and tech businesses remove and report more than 10 million instances of child abuse a month. Unfortunately, we're not seeing abusers being arrested for... [image] Marc Istook / @marcistook : Other companies are figuring out how to protect from CSAM proliferation in their cloud storage while still protecting privacy. Apple announced measures to do so as well and then changed course. Without action, the bad guys can keep winning. Kevin Liao / @kevinliao_ : Shocking: “In the U.S., Apple made 121 reports in 2021 to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a federally designated clearinghouse for abusive material. Google made 875,783 reports, while Facebook made 22 million.” https://www.nytimes.com/... LinkedIn: Lily Rhodes : Some things are worth getting really loud about. For years, Sarah Gardner & I knew this was one of them. …