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0 pointstherealmarv4y ago0 comments

What I think is funny: There are more privacy for consumer laws for Chinese tech companies in China than for US tech companies in USA! It's wild west essentially in USA in this regard. I'm sure what Apple is doing is also against the European Union's GDPR privacy laws. US is missing out here...

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Retric4y ago· 2 in thread

GDPR specifically excludes law enforcement so it doesn’t apply here. The sad thing is Apple was legally required to allow law enforcement to search iCloud backups before they implemented this system, so nothing fundamentally changed.

However, after this backlash you can bet other manufacturers will continue to hide what their actually doing.

therealmarvOP4y ago

As you've written... why there has to change something when it works already for law enforcement.

Retric4y ago

I think Apple was actually designing this system internally as an improvement in terms of privacy. Doing Perceptual hashing on the phones is more open and thus auditable than doing the same thing on their servers. They set things up to require multiple different images to match etc.

However, the perception was very different.

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