Re: Apple accused of underreporting suspected CSAM on its platforms

Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

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.

 
Correct.
 

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

 
Also correct.
 

And it could not prevent false positive matches.

 
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.

 
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.

It's already happening. Is it better that 30m images were used to violate
god knows how many people currently or a better method where a far tinier
amount which are highly enriched for true positive?