I see otherwise very smart people downplaying Apple's decision to move content policing onto devices. This is the second time (after Face ID) that Apple has deployed a technology that poses a greater threat to our liberty than anything Google or Facebook dreamed up. Good thread:https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1423407898890326021 …
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What feature is this referencing? Sorry I feel like I missed something here and would like to understand!
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Steve Randy Waldman Retweeted FT Technology News
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Although the detail appears to be “Apple to get phones to check content and then tell the authorities if it finds something naughty”, and I honestly don’t know if that’s worse than a central server doing it or not.
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It's a really short step from "check everyone's private files on their phones for child abuse" to "check everyone's private files on their phones for images of homosexuality / being Jewish / etc.". Once you build that tool, it will be used in different ways.
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On a purely technical level, it also introduces a new layer of complexity to a software system that is already too complex for human beings to build correctly. Even if all the privacy and policy concerns went away, this one reason should be enough not to build it.
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