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Comment by yesfitz

10 months ago

What “places” would Apple be able to match that aren’t either obvious or irrelevant? (e.g. “The Grand Canyon” is obvious. The interior of a home is irrelevant.) Maybe the interior of a restaurant?

I hate to jump to conspiracy theories, but the mechanism seems like a more effective version of their prior CSAM scanning scheme[1]. Best part? It doesn’t even require iCloud usage.

1: https://www.macworld.com/article/1428633/csam-photo-scanning...