Best way to fix the issue is for parents to monitor they’re kids internet usage and not big brother. And the online pics and people acting on these urges are the end result of a bigger issue that if we focused on would better benefit the live of everyone. And let’s be honest, who truely believes that apple or any big tech company are acting in the interest of mankind, its a company with its sole purpose is to make money
Apple’s Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy
Submitted 1 year ago by Peaces@infosec.pub to privacyguides@lemmy.one
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-scanning-heat-initiative-letter/
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squid@feddit.uk 1 year ago
phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I don’t see how this topic has anything to do with money at all.
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Apple will find a way to make it about money if at all possible. Large companies are known for following the law as minimally as possible and pretty much only making decisions that benefit them financially.
KrombopulosMikl@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Can we please start ignoring these groups? “The Children” are their only concern no matter how it might negatively affect anyone else. Kids who are abused or trafficked should be helped, but that’s not the only issue we have right now and it’s definitely not more important than the effects eroding privacy would have for people and groups around the world. But these groups really don’t care. Plus, lots of these groups are primarily staffed and run by former LEO who would like to see less privacy anyways.
PleasantAura@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Almost none of these groups actually care about the kids. Most of them actively support policies that are proven to enable/cause more abuse because it feels like they’re hurting the bad guys. As a childhood survivor of a bunch of awful shit that I don’t want to get into specifics on, I’ve never seen a single “for the children” group advocate anything that wouldn’t have caused more trauma for me when I was younger. There’s no care about fixing problems and preventing childhood trauma/abuse, just care about asserting control and investing in what “feels good”: retributive justice (that’s more likely to cause recidivism) against one single specific style of abuser while ignoring others (and the survivors) entirely.
OscarRobin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Also I highly suspect groups like this one in particular are funded or even founded by government organizations with a high interest in accessing all your data.
privacyfalcon9899@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Completely agree. They should follow the Jeffrey Epstein’s link and networks if they have the balls. You don’t need to scan all people’s phone on earth. Well, it includes high profile people, so good luck with that.
Bipta@kbin.social 1 year ago
The other day I saw a story "legal marijuana hurts the children" was filed in a court argument. No support for that sensationalist claim, of course.
Lmaydev@programming.dev 1 year ago
Children being sexually absued is absolutely more important then iPhones automatically scanning things you upload to their private servers.
KrombopulosMikl@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
And this is exactly what I’m talking about
argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Good riddance to bad spyware.
rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I’m glad that this is finally put to rest. I ditched iCloud in protest of this but came back after Advanced Data Protection came along.
Although now I just send my photos to my PC directly now (Photosync) and copy files with iTunes since iCloud Drive (on Windows) kept breaking and also ballooning it’s logs to absurd sizes. So I’m just paying for cloud backups and message storage.
kugiyasan@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Anyone able to read the article without logging in?
pound_heap@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Here you go:
mahony@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The client side scanning of contents of your phone is the most 1984 thing you will hear.
phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It was client side scanning if you chose to upload those files to iCloud. The equivalent of having your ID checked before you enter a club.
rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Yes, however my (Others may have other concerns, this is just off the top of my head) chief concern was the breaking a major barrier - in that explicitly user-hostile code would be running on the device itself, one I own. I’d say it’s more of the equivalent of club employees entering your home to check your ID prior to, or during your club visit, and using your restroom/eating a snack while they’re there. (scanning would use “your” device’s resources)
There’s also the trivial nature of flipping the require_iCloud_photos=“true” value to “false” whether by intention or by accident. I have an open ticket with Apple support where my Apple Maps saved locations, favorites, guides, Home, reports, reviews ALL vanished without a trace. Just got a callback today saying that engineering is aware of the problem and that it’s expected to be resolved in the next iOS update. I’m the meantime, I’m SOL, so accidents and problems can and do happen, nor is Apple the police.
And on top of that there’s also concerns of upstream perversion of the CSAM database for other purposes - after all, who can audit it to ensure it’s use for CSAM exclusively and who can add to it? Will those images from the device and database be pulled out for trials or would it be a “trust the machine, the odds of false positives are x%” situation? (I believe those questions might have been already answered when the controversy was flying but just a lot of cans of worms waiting with this.)
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Let’s say my grandson came to a realization that he was actually my granddaughter. She grows her hair long. She practices with make-up and gets some cute dresses and skirts, and is totally into it.
Now Apple knows.
Any any law-enforcement interests that think its wrong or abusive by fiat can force apple to let them know.
Same, if my grandkid decides they are pagan and go from wearing a cross to wearing a pentacle.
Same if law enforcement notices that they are caramel colored, that mom is Germanic pale and dad is dark brown.
The US is a society in which neither law nor law enforcement are on our side, and can at any time decide that arbitrary life shit is worthy of sending a SWAT team to collect us. And if the GOP is determined to make it worse.
regalia@literature.cafe 1 year ago
You’re paying to reserve some space in their cloud to store your encrypted bits. If you exchange money for that space, then you’re entitled for it to be encrypted and private.
player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago