Apple says they will refuse government requests to use their c sam scanning technology to scan for other forms of content. The e f f, the electronic frontier foundation, in the centre for democracy and technology, each release their own objections to this. Apple has more plans to help authorities with their technology including dropping a plan to incript widely used eye cloud back ups,. agreeing to store chinese useo data in the country i had talked about in a previous episode. Matthew green, a cryp graphy professor tells us what he's hearing from apple regarding the back lesh ter receiving.
Podcasting from Italy after a 2-week break of news, Jason covers Casey Newton's failed dunk on Superhuman's $75M raise (2:58), the privacy implications of Apple's approach to preventing child porn distribution (23:14), the Helium Networks internet project (35:02), crypto regulation (43:03), and how WhatsApp is handling Afghanistan (49:45).