More than 4.4 thousand individuals and organizations have signed an appeal to Apple calling on to abandon plans to introduce iPhone and iPad scanning for child pornography. The letter states that the company's intentions are undermined by measures to ensure the privacy of all users of Apple products. Signatories include the Press Freedom Foundation (FPF), the New York Public Library and ex-CIA officer Edward Snowden.
“Apple's current path threatens to undermine the work that technologists, academics, and policymakers have undertaken over the decades to normalize the measures found in most consumer electronics. We ask Apple to reconsider the deployment of its technology, otherwise this important work will be in vain, “- stated on the website of the open letter.
Apple announced plans last Thursday. The company explained that the photos that will be uploaded to iCloud will be hashed (converted into a sequence of characters from which the original data cannot be recovered), and the hashes will be checked against a database of child pornography identified. In addition, iMessage will use machine learning to identify possible child pornography. The technology will only be rolled out to devices sold in the US.
More details – in the material “Kommersant FM” “Apple will look after smartphones.”
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