Here is EFF take, which is probably more technically accurateCan’t read without an account.
My guess is that this is cloud related?
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SIMPLE! Apple sells your information- period! Live with or go somewhere else!Apple Will Scan iPhones for Illegal Child Abuse Images, Sparking Privacy Debate
www.theepochtimes.com
On it's face, it seems like a good cause. Here's my issue: I don't trust big tech to figure out what a "violation" looks like. They will censor folks for posting truth. FB and Twitter will addd snarky comments about information they don't like, saying it's "not been fact checked" or some such nonsense. I left those platforms before they got really bad, so it's a distant memory now.
But I know I don't need them digging into my stuff and deciding what is "good" and "bad".
PS - I do not own any Apple products.
Okay - so no one has brought up the big elephant in the room - for the server to be able to scan and "match" photos - that means Apple has a server full of kiddie porn to check against. How is this allowed to be? Because they claim its for the good of the people? Someone somewhere has to be manually inputting images, which means they have access to the images. If one person does, multiple people could or do. So by admitting to this massive breach of privacy, they're admitting they've got servers full of kiddie porn as well.
According to The Guardian article, the tool only looks for images that are already in the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s database.This will be interesting when it starts trapping teenagers consensually sending pics of their junk to each other.
And of course adults like weiner, fired fox anchors etc and will not be thrilled either...
Posts are one thing.When you hit "ENTER" you sent your post to the "cloud".
I originally went with an iphone over android because I didn't want all my digital eggs in one basket. I used gmail/docs for years.
I realize it all falls under the NSA's net, but all the "phone home" features in Android seemed pretty invasive.
While searching for an iphone alternative I've looked a "De-Googled" phones, but there's not a lot of solid alternatives in the smart phone world for people.
Has anyone found decent smart phones that don't transmit buckets of data back to the mother ship?
My iphone 6 is dying, so I just ordered a cheap iPhone XR to get me through.
My plan is to put nothing but essentials on it.
I backup my photos to Dropbox because they "encrypt at rest" and I've used the system restore to recover from three computer failures over the years.
Unfortunately, privacy is nearly extinct.
I’ve read about more than a few folks who only rely on flip phones with batteries that can physically be removed.
But any smartphone is a little spy. It’s part of the OS. Unlike a computer running Linux as an example, I’m not aware of an open source OS for smartphones.
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The assumption should always be made that you have absolutely zero privacy on the internet or on a cell phone
You, sir, are lucky.I've never owned a so-called smart phone.
They're not a required item in my world.