Posted on 08/26/2021 7:02:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber
There is reason to believe that we are approaching the end of an era of freedom on the internet.
Recently, Apple announced that it will deploy a new algorithm, NeuralMatch, to monitor iMessages and images on its devices. The ostensible purpose is to scan for photos containing nudity sent by or to children and also for photos of nude or seminude children. If a number of suspect images are backed up to an iCloud account, they will be decrypted and inspected, and the user reported to law enforcement. Police could then investigate or prosecute the user for possession of child pornography or for child sex abuse or other offences. But, well-intentioned as the motive may sound, this is a matter of grave concern for privacy. Once such surveillance is begun, it opens the gates for other tech firms to follow suit, and worse, for warrantless scans for nefarious government purposes.
Coming as it does from Apple, this is a curious development in the U.S. For although Apple has bent over backwards to please the Chinese government on its surveillance and censorship needs, it has vehemently resisted assisting the U.S. government. It has refused to unlock cellphones for criminal investigations and prosecutions, citing concerns about protecting the data and privacy of its customers. It has received -- and objected to -- at least 10 requests from federal courts for extracting date from locked iPhones. But now, in a complete turnabout, if Apple thinks (or its algorithm decides) that certain images are illegal, it will cooperate with the authorities.
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I suspect Google is doing the same thing with their leftist cooperation and desire to collect information. They have been helping the Chinese surveillance state as well.
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What could possibly go wrong?
Granted, I suspect the Biden family would be exempt from this type of thing, but I feel pretty certain that if my account contained an image of Biden pinching some little girl's breast, that could be deemed offensive by...someone...resulting in a more invasive search of someone's image sets, and a visit from Law Enforcement.
And that doesn't even take into account the hit your Social Score would take by even having that investigation take place.
Always "for the good of the Children".
They are being clever with this, implying that if you resist their camel’s nose under your tent then you must be on the side of pedophiles and child pornographers. The Left has spun from privacy-needs-protection ACLU types to vaccination-papers-please authoritarians at the drop of a goosestep. This is what you get with ends-justifies-the-means liberalism.
Once you merge tech snooping with China’s “social credit score”, the government gets closer still to full control of your life.
Ditched my iphone six months ago. Also destroyed my ipad last year. No more apple for me.
Why would all of these Tech Guru’s roll over so easily , quickly and efficiently towards government edicts?? Maybe all the Child Sex Trafficking Arrests and Busts bore some really ripe fruit??
Yes.
I’m getting very close to *done* with cell phones and the internet. I absolutely love the internet but it is ruining our world, imo.
In the interim, turn off iMessages and iCloud.
Cease updating your phone.
Where are the lawsuits above this
Evil Givt overreach .?
What are the options on other phones
and services ?
All the options on other phones outside just as evil Goggle ?
This is the tech version of the PLO locating right beside a school. Apple, run by a homosexual who has no children to worry about, is pushing to destroy America’s future.
And turn off Microsoft OneDrive. It is likely just as bad. I never set mine up and get all kinds of Microcrap notices, but I am not doing it even if all the other Microcrap stops working.
Thinking about dropping my Iphone for a de-google phone or Linux Smartphone. Maybe LineageOS.
Never used the cloud yet. Memory devices are cheap and I have a drawer full of them.
In order to scan for one type of photo, they have to scan them all. A minor change in the algorithm will have the scan pick up anyone with a MAGA hat. The algorithm will then alert the IRS to audit him.
Apple could also download kiddie porn onto a user’s phone, and then report the user to the FBI for possessing the porn. So Apple has the power to put any iPhone user in prison. What could go wrong?
“Cease updating your phone.”
Can’t stop it from being updated.. They are forced as part of the TOS agreement.
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