The quality of some of the comments here are really poor.
If you're an adult, one is forcing this feature on you. No one is scanning your photos against known CP. No one is receiving or looking at your photos, or flagging you as a freedom-fighting, enemy of the state aggitator.
This isn't their Anti-CSAM rollout. It comes with no cost to you and may help warn some kids before making a mistake.
There's no room for subtlety in some discussions, downvote to prove it.
As an adult I want this feature. I’ve received dick pics unsolicited. Sometimes I want to see, sometimes I don’t. I’d like blurring by default for those moments when I’m screen sharing or looking at my phone in public.
Kids receiving unsolicited pornographic content is sexual harassment and nobody regardless of age should be subjected to that. Giving people tools to opt in seems great to me.
This is the beta test for their Anti-CSAM rollout, which, of course, will be impossible to disable.
They already scan all photos uploaded to iCloud serverside (because all such photos are not end-to-end encrypted and are readable by Apple, including all your nudes in your camera roll), so we're not talking about iCloud - they will roll out clientside scanning of all your local data and your OS will report on you to the police without your approval or consent.
Mark my words, this is coming. Apple has said as much, and while they made subsequent statements to try to smooth over the bad PR, they have not said that they are not going to - and they did say that they are.
"This is the beta test for their Anti-CSAM rollout"
"they will roll out clientside scanning of all your local data and your OS will report on you to the police without your approval or consent."
"Mark my words, this is coming."
You present no evidence for any of this. Apple was stung by both expert and public responses. It could come, it could go away. If you know something please share otherwise admit this is speculation, like 90% of these comments.
Sending or receiving is explicit images is dangerous for children.
"Think of the children" is often just a cover for ulterior motives, but it is sometimes an adequate or even excellent reason to do something.
This feature from Apple is great. It seems to respect privacy, is fully controlled by the user or their parent, and will increase safety for those who choose to use it.
A common tactic used by child predators is to catfish a child, get the child to send explicit images of themselves, and then blackmail them with those images into doing much worse things. I think this feature will make it less likely for this to happen, and has practically zero downside.
You are welcome to downvote for any reason you like (but you're in a minority).
I followed each of those guidelines, I was on topic, I didn't comment on how people voted on comments (that was more of an informal survey) and most importantly, wasn't boring.
If you're an adult, one is forcing this feature on you. No one is scanning your photos against known CP. No one is receiving or looking at your photos, or flagging you as a freedom-fighting, enemy of the state aggitator.
This isn't their Anti-CSAM rollout. It comes with no cost to you and may help warn some kids before making a mistake.
There's no room for subtlety in some discussions, downvote to prove it.