{"id":42235,"date":"2021-08-09T21:37:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T21:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/apple-responds-to-critics-of-csam-scan-plan-with-faqs-says-itd-block-governments-subverting-its-system\/"},"modified":"2021-08-09T21:37:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T21:37:09","slug":"apple-responds-to-critics-of-csam-scan-plan-with-faqs-says-itd-block-governments-subverting-its-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/apple-responds-to-critics-of-csam-scan-plan-with-faqs-says-itd-block-governments-subverting-its-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple responds to critics of CSAM scan plan with FAQs – says it’d block governments subverting its system"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple’s announcement last week that it will soon be scanning photos on iPhones and iPads that sync to iCloud for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) prompted pushback from thousands of security and privacy professionals and a response from the company that attempts to mollify its critics.<\/p>\n

The iDevice biz revealed two child safety initiatives<\/a> that are initially being rolled out in the US and later in other countries depending on regulatory approval.<\/p>\n

One is a system to alert children and their parents when the Messages app sends or receives pictures deemed explicit (but not necessarily illegal) by an on-device machine learning algorithm.<\/p>\n