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With their plans to encrypt icloud contents by the the end of the year they would not be able to scan anyways if i user has that enabled anyways right?

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• diebeforei485 4y ago
  The proposed scanning was on-device. They could have done it regardless of iCloud encryption.
  • judge2020 4y ago
    But it only did so if the user had iCloud photos enabled.
    • fsflover 4y ago
      Which could be easily changed without users' knowledge any time.
    • diebeforei485 4y ago
      We don't actually know because they never shipped the feature. But having iCloud enabled was not a required part of their scanning system, it was simply an if-else check, and we just had to take their word for it that they wouldn't scan anyway. Still, even if the scanning was only if iCloud was enabled, that's still a step too far in my book because Apple makes it very difficult for alternate photo backup apps to work well. iCloud uses background syncing/upload in ways that third-party apps are prevented from using.
  • ec109685 4y ago
    It wasn’t scanning. They took a fingerprint of every photo and encrypted it so only if that fingerprint matched on the server side and only if 5 of those matches occurred, they could view a photo thumbnail.