Financial Times: Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery

[Peter Fairbrother]

On 06/08/2021 07:45, jim bell wrote:
> Financial Times: Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery.
> https://www.ft.com/content/14440f81-d405-452f-97e2-a81458f5411f  <https://www.ft.com/content/14440f81-d405-452f-97e2-a81458f5411f>
> 
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/06/apple-plans-to-scan-us-iphones-for-child-sexual-abuse-images

"Alongside the neural Match technology, Apple plans to scan users’ 
encrypted messages as they are sent and received using iMessage."

I thought iMessages were supposed to be end-to-end encrypted. Obviously 
not, if they were then it would be impossible to scan them that way.



Hmmm, looking further (or perhaps just thinking about it more, I have 
drink taken :) , what is being talked about is Apple looking at photos 
as they go in their cloud. Is there a button to encrypt cloud content?

Would make sharing harder, but




Peter Fairbrother


the point of moot is to give the kind of access to crypto protection 
that an expert can create to every user.