FabSwingers.com forum: Apple photo scanning.

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Apple are working on being able to scan photographs on people's handset for illegal activities.

That's nice, they'll just be able to have a browse through any of your private pictures on your handset at their own leasure.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not the handset it’s anything uploaded to iCloud and quite rightfully so it’s there serever it’s them that gets in trouble if anything on there that shouldn’t be

If it’s that much off a conser go in to setting iCloud and turn photo upload off and boom there we go

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Not the handset it’s anything uploaded to iCloud and quite rightfully so it’s there serever it’s them that gets in trouble if anything on there that shouldn’t be

If it’s that much off a conser go in to setting iCloud and turn photo upload off and boom there we go "

Sorry, but it is definitely the device as well. Louis has a video outlining the current situation.

https://youtu.be/XZhKzy-zkEw

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

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"Apple are working on being able to scan photographs on people's handset for illegal activities.

That's nice, they'll just be able to have a browse through any of your private pictures on your handset at their own leasure.

Don't buy apple stuff then or store illegal sexual images on the cloud

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Not the handset it’s anything uploaded to iCloud and quite rightfully so it’s there serever it’s them that gets in trouble if anything on there that shouldn’t be

If it’s that much off a conser go in to setting iCloud and turn photo upload off and boom there we go

Sorry, but it is definitely the device as well. Louis has a video outlining the current situation.

https://youtu.be/XZhKzy-zkEw"

Louse is wrong in this instance it’s

Rosman should stick to right to repair and leave cyber surtity to the people that know

1.) User's photos are compared with 'fingerprints' from America's National (NCMEC) from its database of and images that allow technology to detect them, stop them and report them to the authorities.

Those images are translated into "hashes", a type of code that can be "matched" to an image on an Apple device to see if it could be illegal.

2.) Before an iPhone or other Apple device uploads an image to iCloud, the 'device creates a cryptographic safety voucher that encodes the match result. It also encrypts the image's NeuralHash and a visual derivative. This voucher is uploaded to iCloud Photos along with the image.'

3.) Apple's 'system ensures that the contents of the safety vouchers cannot be interpreted by Apple unless the iCloud Photos account crosses a threshold of known CSAM content,' Apple has said.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

At the moment it is for US customers and matching photos against a Child Sexual Images database.

It turns the photo into a "hash" and uses that to match against photos on the device (it doesn't mean they 'know' what your photo is of).

Yes there could be privacy concerns and it depends how the technology is used moving forward.

It won't stop these images being produced or shared as people will just find ways around it.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Not the handset it’s anything uploaded to iCloud and quite rightfully so it’s there serever it’s them that gets in trouble if anything on there that shouldn’t be

If it’s that much off a conser go in to setting iCloud and turn photo upload off and boom there we go "

No. They're working on the ability to go into the handset. Not just the cloud.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Not the handset it’s anything uploaded to iCloud and quite rightfully so it’s there serever it’s them that gets in trouble if anything on there that shouldn’t be

If it’s that much off a conser go in to setting iCloud and turn photo upload off and boom there we go

No. They're working on the ability to go into the handset. Not just the cloud. "

Nope exactly from 9-5 mac one off the big players in the iPhone leak industry

Update: This has now been officially announced: notably your phone will only be scanning photos uploaded to iCloud, in line with policies of all major social networks and web services. (Original story below for context.)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bottom line, unless you've got something to hide, this shouldn't be an issue. Even then, the images are initially machine reviewed and only after something of concern is flagged up is the image reviews by a human reviewer (I don't envy the people that have to do this). The wider question is the adaptation of the software or a state leaning on the likes of Apple (maybe PRC, I can't see any others having much success there) to modify what the software scans for. However, I don't live in Belarus or have any intention to visit so I'm not so worried about that.

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