This is how I feel as well. I don’t use iCloud photos but if I did, sure scan them for CP, I don’t care. Maybe you will catch some bad guys that willingly gave you their photos. But scanning everyone’s phones is beyond creepy and feels like exactly what the fourth amendment is about. It’s British soldiers suddenly having the ability to search EVERY home in colonial America as often as they want.
> Amendment 4. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
I have moved away from Apple ecosystem, already purchased another phone yesterday. The Constitution is holy to me, it’s all we have protecting us from technological dystopia.
Constitution applies between the government and you. Apple is not (knowingly) a government agency, they're a private business. Therefore the amendment doesn't apply to their actions. Vote with the wallet instead.
Yes that’s true but I assume this program is working closely with the government. I could care less about child abuser protection but history shows us that it is a very short maybe non-existent slope from “protecting the kids” to whatever overstep a government organization wants to take.
I wouldn’t care nearly as much about Apple scanning my phone it’s about who is pulling those strings they are working with and in America they are (or should be!) bound by the Constitution. I can only imagine the obliteration of rights that will happen in other places. Imagine a Hong Kong protestor with this program on their phone.
We’ve got to do everything we can to keep George Orwell’s quote from coming true-
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
I’m a cheap bastard so I got a Pixel 2 used for ~$55. I’m sure people will tell me Android is no better and I’d be open to hearing that but they don’t scan your phone as far as I know. I also have the option to install things like Calyx OS, Graphene OS I believe.
> Amendment 4. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
I have moved away from Apple ecosystem, already purchased another phone yesterday. The Constitution is holy to me, it’s all we have protecting us from technological dystopia.