Apple’s plans to scan its users’ devices for CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material) have stimulated fierce debate about whether the new system will provide an avenue for governments to expand their capacity to scan private devices for other illicit content
’s role as an information clearing house has become far more technical as a result. In 1998 it started building a database of imagery known to depict sexual abuse of children based on the tips it had received. The technical term for this kind of data isis shielded from liability to the extent that it can storeand share it with law enforcement, but in 2006 the organisation began to think of ways that it might use the database to catch othertrafficking.
Many technology companies already used, but Apple is taking this further with an encrypted system that runs scans on users’ own phones and laptops.or Apple to tweak this phone-scanning capability to look for other things. That is because any evidence thrown up by those compelled searches would be inadmissible in court for violating the Fourth Amendment. Crucially, none of the technology companies scanning for’s storage of it, does so, because the scans are done on a voluntary basis.
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