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Apple gives privacy one minute
APPLE NEWS
By Silvia Eckert
“California streaming” ducks the controversial CSAM issue at last week’s annual iPhone event.
As reported by Brian Livingston in his column Apple plans to break its end-to-end encryption (AskWoody 2021-08-30), Apple announced about a month ago an initiative to limit the distribution of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) by looking for inappropriate imagery on its customers’ devices and reporting occurrences to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. But because the technology represented what amounted to surveillance that could be applied to virtually anything, an enormous amount of backlash against the initiative occurred.
Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.36.0 (2021-09-20).
This story also appears in the AskWoody Free Newsletter 18.36.F (2021-09-20).
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