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After huge backlash over their seemingly well-intentioned plan to fight child pornography and child sexual abuse, Apple has backed down and delayed the release of a software update that would include protection tools that many believe would invade privacy and open the door for other infringement in the future. The Silicon Valley tech giant had introduced a plan to release software on all of its iPhones and iPads that would protect children by detecting images that matched a database of child sex abuse images when they were uploaded to iCloud the cloud storage service Apple created, as well as give […]

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6 hours ago, Lawyers_Guns_and_Money said:

Probably trying to figure out a way to get people to pay for the app.

Either that or they discovered that some members ofApple development teams had some weirdos amongst them with their own libaries of child porn that would prove embarrasing if it become known.

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3 hours ago, gummy said:

Either that or they discovered that some members ofApple development teams had some weirdos amongst them with their own libaries of child porn that would prove embarrasing if it become known.

You raised a good point. I wonder how much material would be discovered stored on Apple or Google cloud accounts. Which then raises the question as to whether cloud storage providers would be complicit.

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Just now, Lawyers_Guns_and_Money said:

You raised a good point. I wonder how much material would be discovered stored on Apple or Google cloud accounts. Which then raises the question as to whether cloud storage providers would be complicit.

Good question and possibly one they would not wish to answer as morals are not really their game, just money making

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Has anyone seen iHuman? Documentary about how privacy basically doesn't exist anymore. I wasn't so impressed with how it's portrayed with lots of music and digital "art" but the examples they show are very illustrative. There's much more going on than we think and especially authoritarian regimes happily use it to its full extent.

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