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Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI (www.theregister.com)

submitted 4 days ago by Zerush@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I have never liked Apple and lately even less. F.... US monopolies

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What if I don't want Apple looking at my photos in any way, shape or form?'

Then you don't buy an iPhone. Didn't they say a year or two ago that they're going to scan every single picture using on-board processing to look for images and videos that could be child porn and anything suspicious would be flagged and sent to human review?

[–] kipo@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's not that simple. If I don't want any of my photos scanned, I would have to avoid every iphone, ipad, and mac with this feature turned on, effectively meaning I can't send a photo to anyone using an apple device.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Correct.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee -2 points 3 days ago

Well, the other cloud services just did server side csam scan long before apple and they do it respecting your privacy less than apple.

Apple wanted to improve the process like EU wants it, so that no illegal data can be uploaded to apple’s servers making them responsible. That is why they wanted to scan on devices.

But any person who ever used spotlight in the last 4 years should have recognised how they find pictures with words. This is nothing new, apple photos is analysing photos with AI since a very long time.