Apple's plans to scan all iPhone, Mac and iPad photos has privacy experts up in arms. But some like Apple's aggressive move.
... [+]Apple has made a lot of pro-privacy people mad this week with theTo do that, it’ll compare all photos on an iCloud-enabled device to databases of known CSAM images and it’ll be done by checking “hashes.” Think of a hash as a number that represents an image. That number, created when the photo’s data is run through a one-way cryptographic algorithm, is supposed to be unique to the image, so it should be quick and easy for a match to be found.
By law, American companies have to report child abuse and exploitation imagery on their servers to NCMEC, which then works with law enforcement on an investigation. Other tech giants do the same when emails or messages are sent over their platforms. That includes Google, Microsoft and Facebook. So why are so many privacy advocates up in arms about Apple’s announcement?
It’s because Apple is checking photos on your iPhone, not just on its own servers in the iCloud. It’s going one step beyond what its rivals have done, checking every photo on a device rather than just on a company server. Alec Muffett, a noted encryption expert and former Facebook security staffer, explained on Twitter that when someone buys a phone, they expect to have control over what’s happening on their property. But Apple is denying that right and “although it ostensibly exists to prevent upload of CSAM to their iCloud platform, they are using the user's device to do it and making the tectonic-shift statement that ‘it’s ok by us to do this sort of thing to user devices.
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