Comment by matheusmoreira

> the feature has an off switch right in the Settings and a public document explaining how it works

Irrelevant.

This is Apple's proprietary software, running on Apple's computers, devices which use cryptography to prevent you from inspecting it or running software they don't control. Very few people have any idea how it actually works or what it actually does.

That there's some "public document" describing it is not evidence of anything.

> that’s not a reason to immediately assume bad faith

The mere existence of this setting is evidence of bad faith. The client side scanning nonsense proved controversial despite their use of children as political weapons. That they went ahead and did this despite the controversy removes any possible innocence. It tells you straight up that they cannot be trusted.

> Even the author of the article is concerned more about bugs than intentions.

We'll draw our own conclusions.