Comment by devwastaken

This will be used for anti-piracy, government censorship, and targeted attacks, as always. There's no such thing as "were only scanning for CP". By creating the tool the company can be compelled to use the tool in other ways by U.S. or foreign governments. Apple already complies with anti-lgbt countries and will change their app store to suite each one of them. What happens when they're required to also scan for LGBT materials? They'll comply, because apple doesn't actually have morals.

Ontop of this, it gives apple far too much power. What happens when someone they don't like owns an iphone? They can pull an FBI and put the content onto the device, and having it then "automatically detected".