Apple to scan your iPhone for child porn

Nobody has a problem with people using covert tactics to uncover child predators / child porn users but the people and the only people who need to do this work have be the Gardai..or relevant law enforcement . not big business...

if you woke up and found unexpected people who were not known to you, in your front garden looking at and taking photos of your tax / insurance discs, or a drone doing the same and on challenging those people they identify themselves as Apple employees who are invading your privacy.... because they have a cause to do with road safety or whatever ?....

I don’t see what my “sig” has to do with this. I’m fairly sure the police would be able to differentiate between a terrarium and a, large scale, “grow house”.

I mean, it really just a comes down to the fact that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about. You can move to Android products to get around it but how long do you think it will be until this becomes “standard” across all platforms?

Hopefully, these measures will become a massive hurdle for child abuse and, eventually, human trafficking.

They aren't looking at the actual contents of the image but the hash or digital fingerprint (which is just a series of numbers). Every image has a unique hash. The hashes are compared to a database of known hashes of child porn. Now they say they can identify images which have been slightly altered which implies that the hash does not need to be an exact match to flag up. A threshold number of flags need to be reached before authorities become concerned. A small number of flags could indeed just be images that generate similar hashes but if 100s of hashes are matching the child porn database then that's an issue.

That's wishful thinking.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56689.htm

Took the words right out of my mouth Tom.

The government have the tools they need to catch those engaged in child pornography. They don't need nor should they be given blanket surveillence. They need a warrant to wiretap a conversation. They should also require a warrant to search property.

Jesus Christ its firstly obvious that most posters here didn’t bother their asses reading the actual technical document or else didn’t understand it.

Ape are utilising the scanning software which will check the digital fingerprints of photos from a ‘KNOWN’ database of child pornography pictures.

Apple, Google and Facebook already access this database for online storage.

Now this process only happens when photo backup is enabled and takes place before the pictures are uploaded to iCloud.

Your baby bath pictures are fine because they won’t match the so called hashing value in their database.

People act like this is all new but all of this image scanning has been happening for years now for facial recognition particularly with Amazon.

It’s all part and parcel of the whole digital transformation the world is going through at the moment.

I recall in the 1990s a well known newsreader in the UK was subjected to an ordeal surrounding an investigation of a family photo, only to be cleared later on, but clearly traumatised by it. I support what Apple plans to do but its important the algorithm is accurate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Somerville

13 year olds are sexting each other these days. Surely these young lads won't be arrested for having a few nudes on their phones.

Is that right. How fascinating. They must deserve a prison sentence (or castration) then so.

I think windows 10 sends alot of data to Microsoft which includes Edge browser browsing data or data on local pc files if optional data logging is enabled

if they find bad content it will be reviewed by humans , eg to make sure its not an random photo, to verify its illegal content .eg the hash of the photos are checked to see if they match the hash of an image in a database of known illegal content.Apple also go along with the laws in china ,eg the cloud data of all chinese users is avaidable to the police . I don,t think apple care if you rip cds or put songs on your phone, their goal is to get you to sign up for apple music or apple tv services or other apps and music services since they get a 30 per cent cut of all subscriptions

i remember when the ipod was promoted steve jobs was encouraging people to rip music cds to mp3 format and put the files on an ipod