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ChatGPT explained, the FTC suing Microsoft, and Apple adding encryption to iCloud backups

The Vergecast

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iPhone Backups

Apple announced changes to CSAM last year. If you were backing up a photo on iCloud photos, it would then scan the photo while it's still on your device. And create a hash of it and try to match that to known child sexual abuse imagery. Now Apple has said that that program is dead. It wouldn't tell us who the researchers were. They're like, just enjoy it. Just shut up.

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