I used to think that even though Apple's bad, at least they're okay on the privacy front. But what the fuck?
They wanna be able to detect every image I take for the possibility of it being "illegal"? Fuck you.
Is Ubuntu good? And LineageOS for phone?
Edit - At least r/apple seems to be against it If there's one positive thing I can say about reddit, it's that those nerds are usually all in on privacy stuff.
Ah yes, in the technical summary it details their hashing algorithm; it takes some digging to actually find that, I note. I admit to being dubious that their NeuralHash algorithm is really as bulletproof as they seem to be saying it is; neural nets are, in my view, a shitty foundation for any algorithm.
So, on the one hand, this wipes out point 2 (as OP already mentioned), but on the other, anyone with a very large photo collection on iCloud is at real risk of having their images viewed by random Apple employees, which is pretty gross. (I was wondering why they would need a threshold rather than just booting someone for any such image.)