Edward Snowden: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy

[countryside]

The All-Seeing "i": Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy

“Under His Eye,” she says. The right farewell. “Under His Eye,” I reply, and she gives a little nod.

edwardsnowden.substack.com

Great read! Very scary.

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

We all know how well AI works.
And the feature to make sure that all 'similar' or 'altered' images generate the same hash is bound to generate millions of false positives.
Or, the sensitivity will be wound back so far it will be useless.
Don't forget, the AI is not running on a giant bank of high-powered servers. It is running on your phone. Which, really, is not that high-powered.
How much power will this use, and how long will your battery charge last when it is scanning your photo library?

I cannot see this working well for Apple.

 

[countryside]

We all know how well AI works.
And the feature to make sure that all 'similar' or 'altered' images generate the same hash is bound to generate millions of false positives.
Or, the sensitivity will be wound back so far it will be useless.
Don't forget, the AI is not running on a giant bank of high-powered servers. It is running on your phone. Which, really, is not that high-powered.
How much power will this use, and how long will your battery charge last when it is scanning your photo library?

I cannot see this working well for Apple.

I agree with all of that. However, I feel like the biggest reason this is just stupid and pointless is because if someone has questionable content, they will just turn off iCloud photos. Thus, this will only result in privacy violations for the good guys.