Apple to start remotely scanning billions of iPhones for kiddie porn, findings to be reported

[TheCount]

What if somebody has a picture of their kid in the bathtub? Are they getting turned over to the feds?

It doesn't actually analyze the picture. It's comparing your pictures to known pictures of child porn which are part of a central database.

This won't catch someone who is actually producing their own child porn. Instead, it will catch people who are downloading child porn from the internet and keeping it on their phone to jerk off to it.

Does anyone actually believe this is about kiddy porn anyway?

Some people probably do.

Child molestation and child pornography seem to be the hot-button issues of the day that can serve as a justification for literally anything, in much the same way that terrorism served as the justification for all sorts of innumerable evils earlier in the 2000s.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Apple popularity and premium pices could take a hit in time ahead, above story if confirmed would be second major scandal report linked to Apple products in last couple of weeks. Won't be too surprising if Apple board decided to force out current CEO if sales took a hit and turned out that spying on journalists, political opponents, human rights groups etc using apple product was helped in part by his hosting of a foreign spy agencies conneceted leader at Apple HQ.
Recently a WaPo writer was murdered/dismembered in an embassy of a foreign dictorship linked to US based Deep Neocons and his Apple phone was reportedly used to spy on him before he was killed.

 

[ClaytonB]

Apple: You totally misunderstood. Let us repeat exactly what we said before and this time you'll get it... (BBC)

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/kaepora/status/1423738825369604106

Sorry, Marita. Looks like "the screeching voices of the minority" were louder after all:

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1433813834586804228

 

[TheCount]

Sorry, Marita. Looks like "the screeching voices of the minority" were louder after all:

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1433813834586804228

This makes me hopeful, although it's unfortunate that Apple indicated that it was able (and willing) to do it in the first place.

 

[Occam's Banana]

This makes me hopeful, although it's unfortunate that Apple indicated that it was able (and willing) to do it in the first place.

/white-pill

But ...

Snowden: "Be ready to fight if it comes back."

Correction: "Be ready to fight when it comes back."

 

[acptulsa]

/white-pill

But ...

Snowden: "Be ready to fight if it comes back."

Correction: "Be ready to fight when it comes back."

"...has delayed rolling out..." is pretty clear, and surprisingly honest.

"We decided to turn up the heat more slowly, but we'll still get that frog boiled."

 

[tod evans]

Fine...

 

[shakey1]

To these I can only add…

 

[acptulsa]

Who invited all these chickens in here?

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/AngelaTC/status/1440748397158285313

 

[Occam's Banana]

Can you put on a happy face, comrade?

There! Big Brother knew you could ...

https://twitter.com/Not_the_Bee/status/1440815673198977024

 

[Brian4Liberty]

https://twitter.com/AngelaTC/status/1440748397158285313

I believe the difference is that Apple was going to start running scans on your device. All of the large email services (including gmail) have been scanning your mail and attachments for decades, as it goes through and is stored on their servers.