China can make that regardless of what Apple thinks, that’s totally unrelated to this.
Also this technology does not develop similar images, the image has to be essentially identical…
Also this technology does not develop similar images, the image has to be essentially identical…
Now please idividually hash every word of every message on the phone. Then give us all illegal messages that contain _exact_ hash match with the dangerous word “Tianamen”. Government abuse is impossible though: our team of Apple employees here at iCloud-China will manually review them before passing the list to firing squads. Thanks!
It will likely be a fuzzy match on though crimes. But every citizen will get their budget of 30 or so “security” vouchers, so we can all vent a bit once in a while.
Oh and they will also double check it with “totally independent” blacklist on server before running it by a party person last.
The images in this link [1], are completely different. One is a cat, one is a dog. Same hash produced for both.
It’s mind-numbingly unlikely that 2 images would match 2 unique perceptual hashes and a human review and not be the same image.