• kirklennon@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Some parties like Apple have decided to scan photos from your device for illegal material.

    No they haven’t, they aren’t, and they never even discussed scanning your messages like that. There’s a communication safety feature available to enable in parental controls so that if a child’s phone locally recognizes (using machine learning) that they received or are about to send a nude photo, the receiving photo is blurred and they’re given information about making safe choices and then allowed to continue or not.

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      11 months ago

      No they haven’t, they aren’t, and they never even discussed scanning your messages like that.

      They discussed it (source) but the backlash was enough to kill the project for now. Instead, they implemented the “opt-in” system you are talking about.

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        11 months ago

        They discussed something adjacent, not anything that would scan and disclose your encrypted messages.

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      11 months ago

      Thanks for correcting me, you are right about the image scanning. Added an edit to my statement.