![]() For users that have enabled iCloud photo storage, the operating system will check a user’s photos against the database before uploading them to iCloud. Apple will store a database of hashes (small strings of data that serve as a fingerprint for an image) of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on users’ phones. The company also announced changes to its photo storing policies. When the system detects a suspected “explicit” image to or from a child user on a family account, it will warn the user that the image is sensitive and notify them that a notice may be sent to the parent if the young person chooses to send or view the image. On these accounts, Apple will conduct machine learning-based “client-side scanning” in an attempt to detect sexually explicit imagery. More specifically, Apple will add a feature to iOS that scans images in iMessages sent to and from users if they are on a family account. These changes also create a dangerous precedent for allowing one account to essentially conduct surveillance of another. The changes Apple announced today create a backdoor, so that iMessage will no longer provide end-to-end encryption. “Apple should abandon these changes and restore its users’ faith in the security and integrity of their data on Apple devices and services.” “Apple is replacing its industry-standard end-to-end encrypted messaging system with an infrastructure for surveillance and censorship, which will be vulnerable to abuse and scope-creep not only in the U.S., but around the world,” says Greg Nojeim, Co-Director of CDT’s Security & Surveillance Project. However, CDT is deeply concerned that Apple’s changes in fact create new risks to children and all users, and mark a significant departure from long-held privacy and security protocols. Proliferation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is an abhorrent crime against which firm action is required. (WASHINGTON)–Today, Apple announced that it is planning to make several changes to its messaging and photo services in the United States which the Center for Democracy & Technology ( CDT) believes will threaten the security and privacy of its users and ultimately imperil secure messaging around the world.Īpple describes these new policies as an effort to protect children, which is unquestionably an important and worthy goal. Plan to replace its industry-standard encrypted messaging system creates new risks in US and globally ![]()
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