This isn’t entirely a privacy issue. It’s mostly an issue of near future automated authoritarian censorship<p>Being able to help regimes censor, and punish people for, content in the future will help apple financially in the long run. Better market access to those countries if you assist them with their suppression
My opinion of Apple falls pretty substantially with every new justification and explanation. They invented a fancy back door. Privacy-preserving software cannot trigger third party content review under any circumstances, no matter how vile. It cannot fail in a way that results in an arrest or legal expenses.<p>If Apple won’t indemnify customers against false positives produced by this system, then it isn’t reliable enough for me to entrust them with my data.
I love how when you "buy" a phone from Apple, they still consider it "theirs", as they frequently use the term "our platform" and "our systems".
Related discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28168695" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28168695</a>
I'd love to know what their plan is for false positives when someone maliciously AirDrops or auto downloads from a website images of "culpable" nature
Apple to their users: the technology is so advanced so you don't even have to understand it /s<p>How long before Apples will start putting digital "yellow dots" to documents so that we can catch those pesky whistleblowers
So I have a couple of years sticking with the current iOS version before I switch to another ecosystem I guess. It’s a shame, Apple did privacy mostly well and I love the ecosystem.