I like the principal behind this and I’ve got a lot more confidence in Apple to do it in a privacy-centric fashion than others: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
But some of the comments in there seem to really miss the mark, for example “Client-side scanning on one ‘end’ of the communication breaks the security of the transmission”. Huh? It’s being done outside the context of any transmission, how does it “break the security”?!
Or this one: “informing a third party (the parent) about the content of the communication undermines its privacy”. This a cornerstone of parental controls, seeing what your kids are doing! The whole point is to limit their ability to sneak comms past parents.
And if you want to play the “slippery slope” card, Apple is already scanning photos in order to recognise people and group them together. It’s all done locally in a privacy-centric fashion and it’s been there for years.
What doesn’t fly in some responses is “how can you trust Apple not to abuse their power”. If you have an iPhone you already trust them with your pics, video, voice, location, movements, contacts, etc. if you don’t trust Apple with this, don’t use an iPhone. Instead, use a… what?
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