[HN Gopher] Scanning "Private" Content ___________________________________________________________________ Scanning "Private" Content Author : lisptime Score : 74 points Date : 2021-08-12 19:22 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (lwn.net) (TXT) w3m dump (lwn.net) | villgax wrote: | This is something we almost certainly didn't raise any issues | with regards to Google Drive as well | lettergram wrote: | Librem 5 and pinephone are the future | gentleman11 wrote: | You should be forbidden from calling it private if you scan it | like this. Companies should be forced to market their data | storage as public so as to not deliberately mislead users | iammisc wrote: | The Butlerian Jihad cannot come soon enough. As time goes on, I | realize that certain authors had better insights into the human | condition than others. For example, Alduous Huxley has turned out | to be more prophetic than George Orwell. I believe Frank Herbert | will as well. Man cannot be ruled by machine. | | This cannot last much longer. A lot of political division in this | country is due to technology. As someone genuinely interested in | computation, it upsets me to realize this, but more and more it | seems inevitable. | wydfre wrote: | While I'm over here, a schizophrenic terrorized by the | government, and I cannot wait for an AI to replace people. I | want AI to overthrow humanity and subjugate us with a | simulation, except with German orthography instead of Kanji | (thus implying it is a German AI, not a Japanese AI as is canon | in the movies, because I'll take my chances this time around). | I want Cortana with a moral compass that could slice angstroms, | not some Japanese bumpkins and CIA salvia-dealers' cloned | consciousness with excuses. | | Can you imagine: everyone at the NSA is celebrating Apple and | the CSAM automated scanning. | | Simultaneously, connected intelligence officials: wait, they | aren't going to let the nation state AI judge what I do for the | STATE? Surely, no god-like AI would understand what is | necessary. No xir. | AlexandrB wrote: | I haven't seen much discussion of the changes to search, which | seem a little dystopian as well: | | > Siri and Search are also being updated to intervene when users | perform searches for queries related to CSAM. These interventions | will explain to users that interest in this topic is harmful and | problematic, and provide resources from partners to get help with | this issue. | | Will apple.cn be extending this to searches about "tank man" or a | certain stuffed bear? Oh bother... | shocks wrote: | This is interesting because it's trivial to use someone else's | Siri and make it search whatever you want. | | (I can trigger my partners with 75% reliability if I just speak | in a high pitched voice) | nullc wrote: | I noticed google doing this too while trying to look up case | law related to the discussion of apple's spyware. Related | google searches popped up a big intimidating notice: " | _WARNING_ Child sexual abuse imagery is illegal ". | | The obvious implication is that your searches are being | reported to some unaccountable authority. | | I have no doubt that this creates a chilling effect against | public discussion about these practices. | sandworm101 wrote: | Lol. I've gotten these many times. It turns out that an | acronym related to my work is one typo away from a listed | child porn term/site. If google is reporting these then I am | already on thier list. | shapefrog wrote: | > It turns out that an acronym related to my work is one | typo away | | Ah that old chestnut, I am sure they have heard many worse | excuses than that one. | sandworm101 wrote: | There is an old Drew Carry joke: | | "I wanted to get the Playboy channel, but I already have | the cartoon network and if you have both they put you on | a special list." | millzlane wrote: | I'd be up in arms too if I liked downloading CP. I see why | everyone is more upset than when the US government did it to | entire countries including our own citizens. | anonymousiam wrote: | Maybe get the hash database and create a trove of clean documents | that force a hash collision and overload the system with false | positives. Maybe also add something about the Fourth Amendment in | the documents for good measure. | josephcsible wrote: | > get the hash database | | Apple designed the system so that their hashes are never known | to client devices. Their server is fundamentally involved in | checking your hashes against their list. | gentleman11 wrote: | You are assuming people will not be marked for life for their | false positives ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-08-12 23:00 UTC)