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I agree that this is a policy issue. The EU passed a new law just a last month regarding this [0].

I thought this was the implementation for the EU. If it was - it was fast?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27753727

I still see a lot of people thinking the EU law demands the scanning of images for CSAM, but really it permits the scanning of images again. Apparently no one noticed that EU privacy laws actually prohibited the scanning of user images until last year, when companies like Facebook stopped scanning images to avoid fines.

So Apple's move can hardly have been for the EU, but had the European Parliament not passed it, Apple would have had to disable it in the EU.

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