An organization called Fight for the Future is organizing protests in front of some Apple Stores in response to Apple’s proposed feature of scanning a user’s photos for child porn. The following is the official statement: On August 5, 2021 Apple announced that its next iOS update will include new surveillance features that will scan […]
Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal landed an exclusive interview with Apple’s Senior Vice President, Software Engineering, Craig Federighi as he (tries) clearing up the misconceptions that are out there about the (now delayed) Child-Protection feature coming to iOS. To see the interview, click here.
Apple has announced its plans to bring changes to its operating systems that sound to many security researchers like a massive privacy nightmare and the perfect invitation to unintended consequences. Raising concerns in the industry, the company argues it is doing so to protect children and limit the spread of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). […]
The reception to Apple’s backdoor scanning of Photos and Messages is clearly not the warm welcoming one for which Apple executives may have naively hoped by couching it within a laughably contrived Think of the Children™ introduction, as the Center for Democracy & Technology has plainly stated that the move “will threaten the security and […]
