Re: Apple accused of underreporting suspected CSAM on its platforms

On 2024-07-24, Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:

Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

 
Apple's proposal was to match personal photos with *known* CSAM
images.

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Correct.
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It would do nothing to detect *new* CSAM images.

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Also correct.
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And it could not prevent false positive matches.

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Incorrect.

Nope. I am correct. It absolutely could not prevent false matches.

It is designed to avoid false positives, although nothing is 100%
perfect.

If it has even .1 % false matches, then someone's privacy has been
violated.

Everyone on this planet should have a right to basic privacy.

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And they do.

Tell that to the people whose private photos are scanned and are falsely
accused of a crime they didn't commit because an imperfect algorithm got
it wrong.

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