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They are Not scanning the photos But if there is a positive scan of the hash of a photo then the photo will be send to a human to check. Now with a certain error rate it is sure that humans working at apple will see privat photos that don’t have child pornography in them .

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What are we talking here, 1 in 1 billion. I just can’t care that much unless there’s real evidence that the error rate is really high.

I dont know the error rate of image recognition but it is certainly more than one in a million. More 1-10%. But i dont want to talk the idea of apple down. I am okey with them scanning THEIR servers for childporn. As long as the keep away from MY phone.

Three positive matches to known child pornography.

The chance of that happening in the real world is astronomically small.

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