Scanning content on a gmail account is not even remotely anything like scanning my device.
These sorts of dragnet warrants have become increasingly common.
>Google says geofence warrants make up one-quarter of all US demands
https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/19/google-geofence-warrants/
It's not like we haven't seen Google's on-server data hordes misused to falsely accuse users before.
>Innocent man, 23, sues Arizona police for $1.5million after being arrested for MURDER and jailed for six days when Google's GPS tracker wrongly placed him at the scene of the 2018 crime
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7897319/Police-arre...
Apple's system is designed to protect you from being associated with false positives, until that threshold of 30 matches is reached. Even then, the next step is to have a human review the data.
Google has never been willing to hire human beings to supervise the decisions an algorithm makes.
Our police and prosecution ought to be enough review on its own. If our own elected government fails to do something so simple, I say fix the government. I don’t want to be forced to rely on the goodwill of a for-profit company.
They are not.
>Innocent man, 23, sues Arizona police for $1.5million after being arrested for MURDER and jailed for six days when Google's GPS tracker wrongly placed him at the scene of the 2018 crime
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7897319/Police-arre...
The government should be held to a high standard, and when it fails we, the people, should fix it and not turn to private companies and ask why they didn’t step up to the plate.
Also, if you have anything that may be matched by unknowable and unverifiable matching hashes and algorithms provided by multiple nation states now or ever in the future, including but not limited to political activists, protests, anti-animal-abuse activists, climate activists, and select ethnicities, or copyright violations of any kind… switch off iCloud sync.
Until that switch gets ignored.
This cannot and will not be limited to CSAM. The matching is much more complicated than “hashes of existing images.”
Here’s a good in-depth interview on the tech and the issues.
I read it more as "if you don't like it, use another cloud storage solution"
if you don't trust the switch, then why trust any switch on iOS. Why do you trust that they're not already doing it?
why are you using an iPhone?
As there is no clear legislation, every company is implementing what they feel comfortable with.