Apple plans to scan some photos on iPhones, iPads and Porn Sex Mac computers for images depicting child abuse. The move has upset privacy advocates and Foto Telanjang security researchers, who worry that the company’s newest technology could be twisted into a tool for Porn Sex surveillance and political censorship. Apple says those concerns are misplaced and based on a misunderstanding of the technology it’s developed.

In an interview published Friday by The Wall Street Journal, Apple’s software head, Craig Federighi, attributed much of people’s concerns to the company’s poorly handled announcements of its plans. Apple won’t be scanning all photos on a phone, Porn Sex for example, only those connected to its iCloud Photo Library syncing system. And Foto Porno it won’t really be scanning the photos either, Bokep but rather checking a version of their code against a database of existing child abuse imagery.

“It’s really clear a lot of messages got jumbled pretty badly in terms of how things were understood,” Federighi said in his interview. “We wish that this would’ve come out a little more clearly for everyone because we feel very positive and strongly about what we’re doing.”

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For Video Bokep years, Apple has sold itself as a bastion of privacy and Porn Video security. The company says that because it makes most of its money selling us devices, Foto Telanjang and not by selling advertisements, Bokep it’s able to erect privacy protections that competitors like Google won’t. Apple’s even made a point of indirectly calling out competitors in its presentations and ads.

But that all came into question last week when Apple revealed a new system it designed to fight child abuse imagery. The system is built to perform scans of photos while they’re stored on Apple devices, Bokep testing them against a database of known child abuse images that’s maintained by the National Center for Indo Bokep Missing and Exploited Children. Other companies, Indo Bokep such as Facebook, Indo Bokep Twitter, Indo Bokep Microsoft and Video Porno Google’s YouTube, Foto Telanjang for Porn Video years have scanned images and videos after they’re uploaded to the internet. 

Apple argued its system protects users by performing the scans on their devices, and in a privacy-protecting way. Apple argued that because the scans happen on the devices, Foto Telanjang and Bokep not in a server Apple owns, Porn Sex security researchers and other tech experts will be able to track how it’s used and whether it’s manipulated to do anything more than what it already does.

“If you look at any other cloud service, they currently are scanning photos by looking at every single photo in the cloud and analyzing it; we wanted to be able to spot such photos in the cloud without looking at people’s photos,” he said. “This isn’t doing some analysis for, ‘Did you have a picture of your child in the bathtub?’ Or, for that matter, ‘Did you have a picture of some pornography of any other sort?’ This is literally only matching on the exact fingerprints of specific known child pornographic images.”

Federighi said that Apple’s system is protected from being misused through “multiple levels of auditability” and Bokep that he believes the tool advances privacy protections rather than diminishes them. One way Apple says its system will be able to be audited by outside experts is that it will publish a hash, Foto Telanjang or a unique code identifiable, Foto Telanjang for Video Porno its database online. Apple said the hash can only be generated with the help of at least two separate child safety organizations, Video Porno and security experts will be able to identify any changes if they happen. Child safety organizations will also be able to audit Apple’s systems, Indo Bokep the company said.

He also argued that the scanning feature is separate from Apple’s other plans to alert children about when they’re sending or Bokep receiving explicit images in its Messages app for Porn Sex SMS or Foto Telanjang iMessage. In that case, Video Bokep Apple said, it’s focused on educating parents and children, and Porn Video isn’t scanning those images against its database of child abuse images.

Apple has reportedly warned its retail and online sales workers to be prepared for Foto Telanjang questions about the new features. In a memo sent this week, Apple told employees to review an FAQ about the expanded protections and reiterated that an independent auditor Indo Bokep would review the system, according to Bloomberg.