Apple is planning to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child abuse, drawing applause from child protection groups but raising concern among some security researchers that the system could be used to surveil citizens.
Nobody here seems to understand how this works. There is a massive database of cryptographic hashes derived from abuse pictures/videos. These hashes (or codes) can be compared to the ones of the contents on your smartphone.
Fun fact, we do this on hexbear to purge any unwanted and illegal content.
The Verge article also talked about using computer vision on top of the old style hash checks. I remember Apple Photos using local image recognition algorithms on the newer iPhones for the categorizing photos you take, even if you don't upload anything to iCloud
Nobody here seems to understand how this works. There is a massive database of cryptographic hashes derived from abuse pictures/videos. These hashes (or codes) can be compared to the ones of the contents on your smartphone.
Fun fact, we do this on hexbear to purge any unwanted and illegal content.
The Verge article also talked about using computer vision on top of the old style hash checks. I remember Apple Photos using local image recognition algorithms on the newer iPhones for the categorizing photos you take, even if you don't upload anything to iCloud