michaelmurfy:

 

Again, not a slippery slope as it is widely known this is happening on basically all platforms unless if you self-host. It is to protect said platforms more than anything.

 

The what if aspect like you've mentioned above, sure, but you're uploading to a service you don't have control of. Like I've said before, if you upload it then assume anyone can view it. This holds true to any other service (Google Photos, Facebook, Dropbox etc) so why must Apple be any different here?

 

This is why I believe the tech community is truly overreacting here like they've done multiple times in the past with Apple. Apple have already stipulated it is only photos uploaded to their platform (like you say, potentially for now)...

 

Ah right - I understand your point now which I think is that there's no slippery slope as essentially this already happens (and arguably should be happening for good reason) on cloud platforms. Fair.

My real issue with it is that so far Apple have as far as we know not done this kind of scanning and monitoring activity on device, so this is a change on their part - although I acknowledge that it's possible they could have been doing so, and that in a closed source smartphone you have no way of knowing what's actually going on. I really have no issue with them monitoring what's in their cloud, but I do think it's a bit of an overreach to do actively do this with things stored on my device that I am not putting on their cloud. Additionally I see that the door is now potentially open to scanning non-iCloud photos or other content, or scanning for non-CSAM material, which is probably the real concern (although again I acknowledge that this was potentially always a risk even before this announcement).