Apple scanning pictures?

Reportedly planned for Monterey and iOS and iPadOS 15.

For details, see: Child Safety - Apple… and about a billion articles posted around on the ‘net, and of varying validity.

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muguy wrote:

…Seems that way. Apple was the last remaining holdout amongst the largest cloud providers (Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc. have been doing it for years)….

One difference with existing scanning efforts is that those were implemented server-side, once the data was transferred to another party’s servers and to a different storage location.

The Apple (and reportedly now postponed) content-scanning is implemented client-side.

For another recent example of client-side content scanning and its considerations, see the recently-widely-publicized Lithuanian National Cyber Security Centre security audit and threat assessment of the content-scanning implementations and practices of some smartphone manufacturers.

Seems that way. Apple was the last remaining holdout amongst the largest cloud providers (Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc. have been doing it for years). Learn more at https://www.apple.com/child-safety/