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With this much bad PR (and Apple hates bad PR), why is Apple pretty much holding its position?
It should be obvious by now that Apple has been coerced into building this scanning system, and the CSAM scanning is just the front for a much more broad "national security" backdoor. Apple's PR team has surely been shitting bricks for the entire week--this is the worst PR debacle they've had since the iPhone 4 Antennagate in 2010.
With this much bad PR (and Apple hates bad PR), why is Apple pretty much holding its position?
With this much bad PR (and Apple hates bad PR), why is Apple pretty much holding its position?
Potentially something like a national security letter and they can’t reveal the real reason behind it. I agree this feature is off-brand for Apple and came out of the blue.
Lets push that idea so allies in the government can go looking and void it
With this much bad PR (and Apple hates bad PR), why is Apple pretty much holding its position?
How does that stop a FISA subpoena with a gag order? The system exists that any secret government order can exploit.
Nobody is against them trying to prevent child sexual abuse, pretty sure we all agree that fighting that is important, but doing so by creating what is essentially a back door of sorts into my devices isn't the right approach to doing so.
It sounds to me that this is still allowing them that access, so this changes absolutely nothing.
What happened to it being USA only? This sounds like one of those errors where they double down on it and call it a "solution". Sounds like they're misunderstanding people's concerns pretty badly. Sorry if we miscommunicated. Kill this "feature" yesterday. Thanks Tim!
Expect an App Store rule soon - all photos apps must scan for CSAM.
In a year, expect Signal to be banned from all app stores, just like how it's already banned from some countries.