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So I can encrypt my files but does that mean it'll still be proactively scanned for MFing child pornography without any prior evidence?

I don't want that on my phone because I'm not a criminal.

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Yep when apple releases this monstrosity there is literally no way around it unless you encrypt your files before they ever hit your iphone or mac computer. Then they'll just be scanning encrypted data which is theoretically protected. Technically they will (at their discretion) only scan stuff headed for icloud. Theoretically it is still very possible for them to scan things on your phone and report you no matter whether you use icloud or not. 100% if you are using icloud everything will be scanned that's considered a "photo" before uploading it. Eventually (I predict with 99% probablity) this will be slowly extended to scanning everything on your iphone and imac equipments for other "criminal activities" such as financial transactions, all documents, etc for whatever the government at the time considers "criminal"

Solution: Don't buy Apple.

Never again!

luckily, I haven't used an iPhone as my main phone in years.

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