Posted on 08/07/2021 12:40:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin
On the surface Apple’s new features sound both sensible and commendable – but they also open a Pandora’s box of privacy and surveillance issues.
Don’t worry, the tech company has assured everyone, the prying is for purely benevolent purposes. On Thursday Apple announced a new set of “protection for children” features that will look through US iPhones for images of child abuse. One of these features is a tool called neuralMatch, which will scan photo libraries to see if they contain anything that matches a database of known child abuse imagery. Another feature, which parents can enable or disable, scans iMessage images sent or received by accounts that belong to a minor. It will then notify the parents when a child receives sexually explicit imagery.
Apple’s attempts to protect children may be valiant, they also open a Pandora’s box of privacy and surveillance issues. Of particular concern to security researchers and privacy activists is the fact that this new feature doesn’t just look at images stored on the cloud; it scans users’ devices without their consent. Essentially that means there’s now a sort of “backdoor” into an individual’s iPhone, one which has the potential to grow wider and wider. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an online civil liberties advocacy group, warns that “all it would take to widen the narrow backdoor that Apple is building is an expansion of the machine learning parameters to look for additional types of content … That’s not a slippery slope; that’s a fully built system just waiting for external pressure to make the slightest change.” You can imagine, for example, how certain countries might pressure Apple to scan for anti-government messages...
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“Hunter Biden is unconcerned by this news.”
Fun idea: hook an image of Hunter Biden’s disk drive to ICloud and see what happens.
“In the fine print does Apple still own the iPhone that customers use? Is everyone just renting them?”
Yes, We can than Microsoft for the invention of that business model which now trends across many industries.
Not exactly.
It only scans images UPLOADED TO THE ICLOUD SERVER.
The algorithm can determine if you are a dissident and put porn on your phone, then turn you in to the FBI.
Sure glad I don’t have an Apple phone. Apple can go suck a big one.
if you have a US flag on there, WATCH OUT!!!
So a hacker, or Biden’s government, sticks child pornography on your cell phone. Then “finds it” automatically.
The article specifically states that Apple will be looking at your phone.
God only knows what they will find on your phone.
Hey Tim....did you remind the Pope and all the US D.A.’s that Priest’s are included? I think not.
If they can scan it, they can upload it. Screw any new updates.
It’s part of an IOS upgrade coming soon. As soon as you hit the accept button to install that’s it. You have agreed to their terms and services.
“ Aug 5 (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Thursday said it will implement a system that checks photos on iPhones in the United States before they are uploaded to its iCloud storage services to ensure the upload does not match known images of child sexual abuse.”
CBS and the obama administration tried to plant evidence against reporter Sharyl Attkisson. You can bet that the democrats will do this to anyone else.
Attkisson case over govt. computer intrusions moves forward
https://sharylattkisson.com/2021/08/new-attkisson-case-over-govt-computer-intrusions-moves-forward/
#3 Biden is REPEATEDLY filmed molesting children in front of many witness’s! Nothing is done about the pedophile!
Expect plenty of false positives against people who also donated to President Trump’s campaigns.
It’s not about child porn, it’s about access to our phones.
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