Apple to scan photos on iPhones and iCloud in search of child abuse, report says

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According to new information from the Financial Times, Apple plans to use a image scanning system on users’ mobile phones and in the cloud storage space they have in iCloud to search for photos that may be suspected of child sexual abuse.

This initiative can help law enforcement agencies in their criminal investigations, but it also opens the doors for users to fear that this system could be misused, especially by those who are in places with authoritarian governments. .

In any case, Apple plans to share more information about this system throughout this week, according to two security researchers who were in a previous meeting with Apple, according to the aforementioned media.

Fear of possible misuses of the system opens

The system in question is named after neuralMatch, having trained using 200,000 images from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and according to the aforementioned medium, it will initially begin to function in the United States.

In this regard, Users will be given a “security voucher” for each photo uploaded, indicating whether or not the uploaded image is suspected of being child sexual abuse.. Point out that each photo will be assigned a hash value and will be compared with a database of images of child sexual abuse.

When Apple sees that a certain user has a number of photos marked as suspicious, They will get to decipher them so that, in case human reviewers see that they are illegal, the company will contact the relevant authorities.

There is the situation that Apple is a company that champions the protection of privacy, to the point of not having wanted to collaborate in the FBI investigations in the San Bernardino attacks of 2015.

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At the moment, the company has not offered any information in this regard, and less in relation to the compatibility of this system with the right to privacy of users that it has been defending over the last few years, which is reflected in its continuous campaigns. of marketing.

It will be a matter of waiting for the company to pronounce itself and offer more information, since this strategy can mark a before and after in relationships with users who wish to have greater protection of their content, trusting the ecosystem of solutions of the famous company of the bitten apple.