It seems apple devices are a black opaque box:
support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
Every thing is encrypted except imap email storage. They have no access to anything except that. They can't do anyting with any data except imap emails stored on their server.
The governments want them to do some thing preventing CSAM, so now they can match a perceptual hash--not content--to known images from an non-governmental organization. That is about the minimum invasive CSAM prevention anybody can do.
Can someone suggest an alternative CSAM prevention which is less intrusive?
It seems the alternative would be to continue to be a black opaque box, or NOT encrypt you photos and rumage through them.
From https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
>End-to-end encryption provides the highest level of data security. Your data is protected with a key derived from information unique to your device, combined with your device passcode, which only you know. No one else can access or read this data.
The governments want them to do some thing preventing CSAM, so now they can match a perceptual hash--not content--to known images from an non-governmental organization. That is about the minimum invasive CSAM prevention anybody can do.
Can someone suggest an alternative CSAM prevention which is less intrusive?
It seems the alternative would be to continue to be a black opaque box, or NOT encrypt you photos and rumage through them.