Re: Apple accused of underreporting suspected CSAM on its platforms

On 2024-07-24 08:47, Jolly Roger wrote:

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

Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

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True. Unlike others, Apple's proposal was to only scan images on
device that were being uploaded to Apple's servers, and only match
hashes of them to a database of hashes matching known CSAM images.
And only after multiple matches reached a threshold would Apple
investigate further.

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All correct.
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Yet even with those precautions, there was still a realistic chance
of false positives

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The rate was deterministic and tunable.

 If the rate was anything other than ZERO, them people's privacy was at
risk.

By that argument, we must also scrap the traditional system of issuing warrants to search people's homes, because there is a non-zero rate of warrants issued in error.