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akerstentoday at 9:23 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Because the photos and videos are analyzed on your child's device, Apple doesn't receive an indication that nudity was detected and doesn't get access to the photos or videos as a result.

Apropos of nothing, I really don't love the construction of this reassurance. This is not actually a reasoned-through guarantee, it's just two things that happen to be true at the same time. But the latter could change at any point, on-device processing does not preclude the device notifying Apple about what it saw.


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runjaketoday at 9:34 PM

The backdrop to this is a story from 2023 in which Apple attempted to do this and faced backlash. This received significant coverage worldwide at the time.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-photo-scanning-csam-commun...

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an0maloustoday at 9:40 PM

How is that “apropro of nothing”? Isn’t it apropro of the quote from the article you’re commenting on?

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