Re: Apple accused of underreporting suspected CSAM on its platforms

On 2024-07-25 15:52:29 +0000, The Running Man said:

On 23/07/2024 05:35 Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
 

badgolferman wrote:

 

Apple has been accused of underreporting the prevalence of child sexual

 

abuse material (CSAM) on its platforms. The National Society for the

 

Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), a child protection charity in

 

the UK, says that Apple reported just 267 worldwide cases of suspected CSAM

 

to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) last year.

 

 

 

That pales in comparison to the 1.47 million potential cases that Google

 

reported and 30.6 million reports from Meta. Other platforms that reported

 

more potential CSAM cases than Apple in 2023 include TikTok (590,376), X

 

(597,087), Snapchat (713,055), Xbox (1,537) and PlayStation/Sony

 

Interactive Entertainment (3,974). Every US-based tech company is required

 

to pass along any possible CSAM cases detected on their platforms to NCMEC,

 

which directs cases to relevant law enforcement agencies worldwide.

 

 

 

As The Guardian, which first reported on the NSPCC's claim, points out,

 

Apple services such as iMessage, FaceTime and iCloud all have end-to-end

 

encryption, which stops the company from viewing the contents of what users

 

share on them. However, WhatsApp has E2EE as well, and that service

 

reported nearly 1.4 million cases of suspected CSAM to NCMEC in 2023.

 

 

 

“There is a concerning discrepancy between the number of UK child abuse

 

image crimes taking place on Apple’s services and the almost negligible

 

number of global reports of abuse content they make to authorities,”

 

Richard Collard, the NSPCC's head of child safety online policy, said.

 

“Apple is clearly behind many of their peers in tackling child

sexual abuse
 

when all tech firms should be investing in safety and preparing for the

 

roll out of the Online Safety Act in the UK.”

 

 

 

Apple declined to comment on the NSPCC's accusation, instead pointing The

 

Guardian to a statement it made when it shelved the CSAM scanning plan.

 

Apple said it opted for a different strategy that “prioritizes the

security
 

and privacy of [its] users.” The company told Wired in August 2022 that

 

"children can be protected without companies combing through personal

 

data."

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.engadget.com/apple-accused-of-underreporting-suspected-csam-on-its-platforms-153637726.html  

 

 

 

 

Apple had a system ready to go, but a pile of brainless morons

 

complained about their "privacy" being invaded (which it wasn't), so

 

Apple was forced to abandon it. All this report achieves is to

 

acknowledge that all those other companies listed above are less

 

stringent about their users' privacy.

   Many people threatened to throw away or even burn their iPhones if
 Apple went ahead with the scheme. People don't want their actions  policed on THEIR phones.    This  really scared Apple and they immediately did a 180 degree turn.
 

The reality is that most users didn't even know about the plans and wouldn't have cared even if they did know. As usual, it was a minority of loud-mouthed whiners who complained because they were scare someone at Apple would see that they've been taking photos of cute wabbits ... which wasn't even possible if the whiners actually understood anything.   :-\
Nobody anywhere gives a flying crap what your do with your phone ... unlesss it's illegal, in which case you deserve to get caught. PLAIN AND SIMPLE!