Apple Has New Tools to Protect Children. But at What Cost?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/opinion/sway-kara-swisher-julie-cordua-ashton-kutcher.html

by aacook • 5 years ago

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NoPicklez3• 5 years ago

I wish these articles also included the fact that other large tech companies are and have been doing this since around 2019.

CloudFlare as an example detailed this letter in a blog post in mid-2019 which also called out the 36 companies. CloudFlare then went on to implement the CSAM hashing tool in a blog called "Announcing the CSAM Scanning Tool, Free for All Cloudflare Customers" in December 2019. This was also discussed and applauded in HackerNews a few years ago.

See: https://twitter.com/mhkeller/status/1196818679683530752

Other large tech companies have something similar for a number of years. Apple have clearly been put under significant pressure about this. In more recent news, OnlyFans was under pressure from payment processors for not detecting CSAM content on their services, which is why they were removing adult content.

0xy2• 5 years ago

That CF tool is voluntary, it does not run automatically. Also, I haven't seen many people argue that CSAM scanning shouldn't happen on online cloud services. On local devices though? Massively over the red line.

NoPicklez3• 5 years ago

You really do have to wonder why Apple are doing it on-device rather than in the cloud. As I don't believe iCloud is encrypted data at rest either.

Apple Has New Tools to Protect Children. But at What Cost?

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