Comment by akersten

I really have to wonder why Apple chose to do this.

As far as I know, this kind of scanning is not legally mandated. So, either they think that this will truly make the world a better place and are doing it out of some sense of moral responsibility, or they've been pressured into it as part of a sweetheart deal on E2E ("we won't push for crypto backdoors if you'll just scan your users' phones for us"). Either way it doesn't thrill me as a customer that my device is wasting CPU cycles and battery life under the presumption that I might possess data my current jurisdiction deems illegal.

For all the acclaim privacy-forward measures like GDPR get here, I'm surprised there isn't more outright repudiation of this frankly Orwellian situation.