Apple has confirmed that it already scans iCloud Mail for CSAM, and has been doing so since 2019. However, she doesn't
This clarification came afterreporters asked about a rather strange claim by an anti-fraud company executive that Apple is “the largest platform for distributing child porn”. This immediately raised the question: If the company didn't scan iCloud photos, how could it know?
What has turned out?
Apple Confirms It Will Scan From 2019outgoing and incoming iCloud Mail for CSAM attachments. Email is not encrypted, so scanning attachments as mail passes through Apple's servers was a trivial task.
Apple has indicated that it is conducting limitedscanning other data, but did not specify what data, except for the statement about the “small scale”. The company also reported that “other data” do not include iCloud backups.
Although these statements sound convincing and seemAlthough they are based on reliable data, there are suggestions that they are not completely honest. As far as we know, the total number of reports Apple sends to CSAM each year is in the hundreds, meaning email scans provide no evidence of the extent of the problem on Apple's servers.
What is the cause of the unrest?
Probably the explanation lies in the fact that otherscloud services checked photos for CSAM, and Apple – No. If other services disabled accounts for downloading CSAM, and iCloud Photos – no (because the company didn't scan there), then the logical conclusion is that there are more CSAMs on the Apple platform than anywhere else.
Apple's initiative for an unexplained reasonmet with enormous resistance, including from the governments of different countries. This is all the more surprising since such scanning has been carried out for many years by almost all major photo hosting sites, from Dropbox to Facebook or Google.
Source: 9to5mac
Illustrations: Stephen Phillips
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