Comment Misleading title - and public panicing for no reas (Score 1) 135
Eveyrone is up in arms about this, and as titled, i 100 percent agree.
The fact is though, apple and cloud services are comparing image HASHES that already exist with an existing database of child abuse images.
They aren't scanning your images directly, they dont care and dont have the power or processing to scan every image and "look" for child abuse.
All they are doing is a comparison between your list of file hashes and an existing list of hashes. ( i feel sick such a list exists, that this method is even required)
I heartily agree with them scanning image hashes.