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All of those are parts of the network infrastructure. They neither "see" the photo, edit it or need it. They don't even know if it's a photo.

Everybody knows that there is a network infrastructure where your content flows through. You willingly accept that as a connected device user because it is necessary to be connected.

What Apple did is not necessary and users don't know about it.

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I agree that this isn’t necessary and that Apple should have asked for consent from the user.

I do want to point out that Apple doesn’t get to see your photo. Homomorphic encryption is really cool in that way. Apple isn’t able to decrypt the photo and the results they produce are also encrypted. That’s the beauty of homomorphic encryption. I can send you an encrypted spreadsheet and you can compute the sum of a column for me. I’m the only one who can see the actual sum since you can only see the encrypted sum.

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