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This isn't a powerful tool, it's more akin to a rudimentary hash check. It's not going to match photos that aren't already known to authorities. And any time a user is flagged, the material in question is sighted by an Apple employee before a decision is made whether to forward it onto the relevant authorities.


Ok, so what stops the CCP from submitting hashes of photos of the "tank man" to this hash set? And then jailing all those reported to possess it?


What's stopping them already...?

It operates on iCloud photos. Those are already scanned. If a nation state wanted to flex this before they could have done so.


That's a poor argument, and possibly some kind of fallacy.

'No one has done it before, so they probably won't do it in the future now that it we made it easier.'


It’s not easier though. They moved the scanning onto the device instead of doing it server side. That all.


Same reason you do not sue someone for patent infringement until it is too late for them to turn back?


Because when the Apple employee who reviews the flagged accounts sees pictures of Tank Man and not CSAM, they won't forward them on.


Unless their business is threatened


What was stopping Apple from being threatened with the exact same threats three years ago?




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