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Apple’s plans to scan users’ iCloud Photos library against a database of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to look for matches and childrens’ messages for explicit content has come under fire from privacy whistleblower Edward Snowden and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
In a series of tweets, the prominent privacy campaigner and whistleblower Edward Snowden highlighted concerns that Apple is rolling out a form of “mass surveillance to the entire world” and setting a precedent that could allow the company to scan for any other arbitrary content in the future.
No matter how well-intentioned, @Apple is rolling out mass surveillance to the entire world with this. Make no mistake: if they can scan for kiddie porn today, they can scan for anything tomorrow.
They turned a trillion dollars of devices into iNarcs—*without asking.* https://t.co/wIMWijIjJk
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) August 6, 2021
Snowden also noted that Apple has historically been an industry-leader in terms of digital privacy, and even refused to unlock an iPhone owned by Syed Farook, one of the shooters in the December 2015 attacks in San Bernardino, California, despite being ordered to do so by the FBI and a federal judge. Apple opposed the order, noting that it would set a “dangerous precedent.”
The EFF, an eminent international non-profit digital rights group, has issued an extensive condemnation of Apple’s move to scan users’ iCloud libraries and messages, saying that it is extremely “disappointed”
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