Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
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Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
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Re: Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
#2A win for privacy and freedom
Re: Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
#3A win for privacy and freedom
Indeed. And a rare one at that.
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#4It is crazy people think apple isnt on the side of privacy. Are they perfect? Not even close, but compared to the rest of big tech theyre simply on another level.
Apple could easily not do this stuff and it may even be easier to not.
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#5the judge is indeed wise
Re: Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
#6It is crazy people think apple isnt on the side of privacy. Are they perfect? Not even close, but compared to the rest of big tech theyre simply on another level. Apple could easily not do this stuff and it may even be easier to not.
Indeed.
But they are until they are actually defeated. I would rather plan for failure. We are in a global climate where court rulings can be ignored.
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#7The judge called the outcome disturbing, as it leaves victimized children as "collateral damage" of privacy protections.
As sad as this is, end to end encryption means no CSAM scanning.
As an alternative Apple previously tried to do scanning on the phones locally but caught hell for that too.
This is one of those unfortunate tradeoffs but I see no alternative to privacy taking priority.
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#8I know creating a throwaway to hide your name for an opinion is a bad manner, but this one is one I really don’t want linked back to me
The VAST majority of “CSAM” is consensually created and exchanged by teens. Their future selves and their parents form this pressure group attacking everyone’s liberty and privacy to try to undo the downsides of choices they made themselves with full knowledge of what could happen.
The criminal and disgusting tail end of this type of material deserves the worst of consequences for the perpetrators and all the support in the world for the victims, but these are mostly - you guessed it - poor and unprivileged children from far away places and they certainly can’t put this much pressure on apple
Re: Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
#9If these judges are so righteous, they should go further and mandate the OS to do mandatory scanning of personal hd.
Re: Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
#10If these judges are so righteous, they should go further and mandate the OS to do mandatory scanning of personal hd.
Don't worry, we'll get there soon enough.