{"id":2499,"date":"2021-08-14T15:37:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T13:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/14\/is-apples-image-scan-plan-a-wise-move-or-the-start-of-a-slippery-slope-john-naughton\/"},"modified":"2021-08-14T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T13:37:14","slug":"is-apples-image-scan-plan-a-wise-move-or-the-start-of-a-slippery-slope-john-naughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/14\/is-apples-image-scan-plan-a-wise-move-or-the-start-of-a-slippery-slope-john-naughton\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Apple\u2019s image-scan plan a wise move or the start of a slippery slope? | John Naughton"},"content":{"rendered":"

The tech giant says its iCloud security update is designed to help weed out images of abuse their children, but activists have voiced concerns<\/p>\n

Once upon a time, updates of computer operating systems were of interest only to geeks. No longer \u2013 at least in relation to Apple\u2019s operating systems, iOS and Mac OS. You may recall how Version 14.5 of iOS<\/a>, which required users to opt in to tracking, had the online advertising racketeers in a tizzy while their stout ally, Facebook, stood up for them. Now, the forthcoming version of iOS has libertarians, privacy campaigners and \u201cthin-end-of-the-wedge\u201d worriers in a spin.<\/p>\n

It also has busy mainstream journalists struggling to find headline-friendly summaries of what Apple has in store for us. \u201cApple is prying into iPhones to find sexual predators, but privacy activists worry governments could weaponise the feature\u201d was how the venerable Washington Post<\/em> initially reported it<\/a>. This was, to put it politely, a trifle misleading and the first three paragraphs below the headline were, as John Gruber brusquely pointed out<\/a>, plain wrong.<\/p>\n

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\nThe tech giant says its iCloud security update is designed to help weed out images of abuse their children, but activists have voiced concerns
\nOnce upon a time, updates of computer operating systems were of interest only to geeks. No longer \u2013 at least in relation to Apple\u2019s operating systems, iOS and Mac OS. You may recall how Version 14.5 of iOS, which required users to opt in to tracking, had the online advertising racketeers in a tizzy while their stout ally, Facebook, stood up for them. Now, the forthcoming version of iOS has libertarians, privacy campaigners and \u201cthin-end-of-the-wedge\u201d worriers in a spin.
\nIt also has busy mainstream journalists struggling to find headline-friendly summaries of what Apple has in store for us. \u201cApple is prying into iPhones to find sexual predators, but privacy activists worry governments could weaponise the feature\u201d was how the venerable Washington Post initially reported it. This was, to put it politely, a trifle misleading and the first three paragraphs below the headline were, as John Gruber brusquely pointed out, plain wrong. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The tech giant says its iCloud security update is designed to help weed out images of abuse their children, but activists have voiced concerns Once upon a time, updates of computer operating systems were of interest only to geeks. No longer \u2013 at least in relation to Apple\u2019s operating systems, iOS and Mac OS. You …<\/p>\n

Is Apple\u2019s image-scan plan a wise move or the start of a slippery slope? | John Naughton<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}