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> Personally I’d prefer this than no encryption and scanning in the cloud, which is already possible.

Why is that the alternative? How about everything is encrypted and nothing is scanned.

This is already possible if you self host your stuff. I’m talking about iCloud specifically here - backups are not encrypted so it’s either scan in the backend or scan on the client.

If you don’t want to be scanned you can turn it off. I honestly don’t see the issue. It seems the only thing people can say are hypothetical situations here.

Realistically, because if they don't have something to scan for it, countries / EU are going to require them to provide a backdoor to scan it. There are already proposals in the EU to that affect.

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