Comment by noptd

I disagree - it's a distraction from the larger issue at hand.

> I’d argue that the incorrect characterization of Apple’s announcement as scanning all the files on your phone with no control

That's a strawman - few if any are arguing that the system will read all of your files out of the gate.

>since no new technical risk has been introduced,

This assumption doesn't reflect reality. Introducing a brand new system built specifically for client-side scanning absolutely adds technical risks, if nothing else then by the sheer fact that it's adding another attack vector on your phone. Not to mention the fact that all it would take is a change in policy and a few trivial updates (a new event trigger, directory configs, etc) for this system to indeed scan any file on your device.