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    Apple delays plan to scan iPhones for child abuse.

    Apple has delayed plans to roll out detection technology which would have scanned US users' iPhones in search of child sexual abuse material.
    It follows widespread criticism from privacy groups and others, worried that the on-device tracking set a dangerous precedent.
    Apple said that it had listened to the negative feedback and was reconsidering.

    There were concerns the system could be abused by authoritarian states.

    The so-called NeuralHash technology would have scanned images just before they are uploaded to iCloud Photos. Then it would have matched them against known child sexual abuse material on a database maintained by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

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    • It was NEVER going to scan iPhones. It was going to scan iCloud where people upload photos.monospaced
    • ^^^ iCloud already scans. This was about installing scanning software directly on devices. So, yes, it was absolutely designed to scan an iPhone.section_014
    • Is that right?monospaced
    • They're comparing a hash of known pedophile images against hashes of your images, and if you have 30+ hits on your image library they call the FBI.zarkonite
    • Gotcha.monospaced
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