WASHINGTON, Aug 7 — Apple’s announcement that it would scan encrypted messages for evidence of child sexual abuse has revived debate on online encryption and privacy, raising fears the same technology could be used for government surveillance. The iPhone maker said its initiative would “help...
WASHINGTON, Aug 7 — Apple’s announcement that it would scan encrypted messages for evidence of child sexual abuse has revived debate on online encryption and privacy, raising fears the same technology could be used for government surveillance.
Apple argued in a technical paper that the technology developed by cryptographic experts “is secure, and is expressly designed to preserve user privacy.” “This sort of tool can be a boon for finding child pornography in people’s phones. But imagine what it could do in the hands of an authoritarian government?” said a tweet from Matthew Green, a cryptographer at Johns Hopkins University.
Blaze said the implementation is “potentially very risky” because Apple has moved from scanning data on services to the phone itself and “has potential access to all your local data.”The new image-monitoring feature is part of a series of tools heading to Apple mobile devices, according to the company.
“Apple’s expanded protection for children is a game changer,” said John Clark, president of the nonprofit NCMEC.Apple notably resisted a legal effort to weaken iPhone encryption to allow authorities to read messages from a suspect in a 2015 bombing in San Bernardino, California.
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