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We should be up in arms over this. But we should also be up in arms over Apple's "CSAM" plans.

Surveillance doesn't belong on our devices. Period.

Once it's in, the dictators can clamp down even harder. Over time, freedom atrophies and the window slides closer to totalitarian control.

Don't invite the devil in. Scream it away.

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There were multiple articles about apple's csm with discussions.

And we should stop talking about it? That's what Apple and the intelligence orgs want.

I'm totally up for talking about it, what more can we talk about tho? I'm switching vendors and advocating for open sw/hw. Open to more threads!

I don’t see Lithuania writing a report or making a fuss about it. Weird.

No, someone a lot more powerful did:

"Member of the German parliament, Manuel Höferlin, who serves as the chairman of the Digital Agenda committee in Germany, has penned a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, pleading Apple to abandon its plan to scan iPhone users' photo libraries"

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/18/german-politician-lette...

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/08/17/germany-writes-to...

Along with

"Apple photo-scanning plan faces global backlash from 90 rights groups"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/apple-photo-scan...

And 487 other articles, reports, fusses that went against Apple's plans.

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