A child safety group pushed Apple on why the announced CSAM detection feature was abandoned, and the company has given its most detailed response yet as to why it backed off its plans.
The on device scanning that was proposed was part of the iCloud upload. If you didn’t upload your photos to iCloud nothing was scanned. There was so much FUD spread by people that thought it was literally scanning through all the files on your phone the second they hit your phone that it created so much outrage over “fake news”.
Apples explanation here doesn’t really make much sense since iCloud data is unencrypted on their servers. Doing on device scanning wouldn’t open up any attack vectors on iCloud.
The on device scanning that was proposed was part of the iCloud upload. If you didn’t upload your photos to iCloud nothing was scanned. There was so much FUD spread by people that thought it was literally scanning through all the files on your phone the second they hit your phone that it created so much outrage over “fake news”.
Apples explanation here doesn’t really make much sense since iCloud data is unencrypted on their servers. Doing on device scanning wouldn’t open up any attack vectors on iCloud.