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Apple this week announced that, starting later this year with iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, the company will be able to detect known Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) images stored in iCloud Photos, enabling Apple to report these instances to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a non-profit organization that works in collaboration with law enforcement agencies across the United States.
The plans have sparked concerns among some security researchers and other parties that Apple could eventually be forced by governments to add non-CSAM images to the hash list for nefarious purposes, such as to suppress political activism.
“No matter how well-intentioned, Apple is rolling out mass surveillance to the entire world with this,” said prominent whistleblower Edward Snowden, adding that “if they can scan for kiddie porn today, they can scan for anything tomorrow.” The non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation also criticized Apple’s plans, stating that “even a thoroughly documented, carefully thought-out, and narrowly-scoped backdoor is still a backdoor.”
To address these concerns, Apple provided additional commentary about its plans today.
Apple’s known CSAM detection system will be limited to the United States at launch, and to address the potential for some governments to try to abuse the system, Apple confirmed to MacRumors that the company will consider any potential global expansion of the system on a country-by-country basis after conducting a legal evaluation.
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Apple Addresses CSAM Detection Concerns, Will Consider Expanding System on Per-Country Basis