Comment by Santosh83
4 years ago
> What is the utopian perspective of this which counterbalances the risks for this to be a path worth taking?
Apple takes care of everything for you, and they have your best interests at heart. You will be safe, secure, private and seamlessly integrated with your beautiful devices, so you can more efficiently consume.
What's not to like about a world where child crime, terrorism, abuse, radical/harmful content and misinformation can be spotted in inception and at the source and effectively quarantined?
No one here has a problem with the worst criminals being taken out. The problem is the scope creep that always comes after.
In 2021 and 2020 we saw people being arrested for planning/promoting anti lockdown protests. Not for actually participating but for simply posting about it. The scope of what "harmful content" is is infinite. You might agree that police do need to take action against these people but surely you can see how the scope creeped from literal terrorists and pedophiles to edgy facebook mums and how that could move even further to simple criticisms of the government or religion.
It's difficult to say how we draw the line to make sure horrible crimes go punished while still protecting reasonable privacy and freedom. I'm guessing apples justification here is that they are not sending your photos to police but simply checking them against known bad hashes and if you are not a pedophile, there will be no matches and none of your data will have been exposed.
We also saw the police query "check-in" databases which were pitched to the public as "for contact-tracing purposes only". Scope creep is inevitable.
Source? Most of these systems didn't disclose location.
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Do you have sources for this ?
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We also saw HN shadow banning entire IP CIDR blocks because they didn’t like argument against fleeting CDC guidance that was put forth or the Chinese lab origin theory in 2020. You can’t register from these CIDR blocks. If you had an account before the comments would just end up in a black hole. Dang can explain.
That is false. So was your other false claim that I replied to (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28093879).
Please stop creating accounts to break HN's rules with.
Any proofs will be great here.
@dang why?
@dang is that true? :O
Who will be accountable for the creeps at apple? Or their overlords in the government?