On Fri, Aug 6, 2021, 2:46 AM jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
Financial Times: Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery.
https://www.ft.com/content/14440f81-d405-452f-97e2-a81458f5411f

Here's one without a paywall.  https://www.npr.org/2021/08/06/1025402725/apple-iphone-for-child-sexual-abuse-privacy

Not sure what the paywall'd one says, but this one focuses on child pornography, which makes it harder to argue for a public system.

Other corps are doing this.  Free software generally does not.

The detection algorithm is transported in the form of a pretrained computer vision model, which opens other concerns too, of course, via its generality and obscurity.