Comment by MikeUt
4 years ago
> Unshared data shouldn't be subject to search. Once it's shared, I can make several cases for an automated scan, but a cloud backup of personal media should be kept private. Our control of our own privacy matters. Not for the slippery slope argument or for the false positive argument, but for its own sake. We shouldn't be assuming the worst of people without cause or warrant.
I have a much simpler rule: Your device should never willingly* betray you.
*With a warrant, police can attempt to plant a bug, but your device should not help them do so.
I don't think this rule makes any sense, because it just abstracts all the argument into the word "betray".
The vast majority of iPhone users won't consider it a betrayal that they can't send images of child abuse, any more than they consider it a betrayal that it doesn't come jailbroken.
The victims of child abuse depicted in these images may well have considered it a betrayal by Apple that they allowed their privacy to be so flagrantly violated on their devices up until now.
I don't think you read your ancestor post carefully enough. I at least don't see any room for ambiguity.
The rule is that your (note the emphasis) device won't ever willingly betray you. There's nothing here that implicates the majority in any way. Simply, your own device should never work against you.
This actually sounds like a great rule to prevent this kind of authoritarian scope creep.
> The vast majority of iPhone users won't consider it a betrayal that they can't send images of child abuse
Probably neither would child abusers, since as soon as they send an image of child abuse, they're much more likely to be caught than if it had stayed on their phone.
> a betrayal by Apple that they allowed their privacy to be so flagrantly violated on their devices up until now.
"Their" devices? Once Apple sells an iPhone, it no longer belongs to Apple. Taking "betrayal" to mean "didn't plant backdoors on other people's computers to catch your abusers" is stretching that word far beyond reason.