Apple Halts Plan to Scan Child Sex Abuse Images in iPhones

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Apple has decided to delay its plan to scan iPhones or iPads for child sex abuse images to “protect children” after facing fierce backlash.

“Based on feedback from customers, advocacy groups, researchers, and others, we have decided to take additional time over the coming months to collect input and make improvements before releasing these critically important child safety features,” Apple announced on its website Friday.

On Aug. 5, Apple declared an “ambitious” plan of “Expanded Protections for Children.” The Cupertino-based tech giant said it would introduce new child safety features in three areas, of which the feature to detect child sexual abuse material in iPhones and iPads is the most controversial.

Apple’s program will utilize breakthrough cryptography technology and artificial intelligence to find abuse material when it is stored in iCloud Photos. Illegal images will be reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the tech giant said at the time.

On Aug. 14, Apple announced more details on how the child sexual abuse material detection system would work, saying “the possibility of any given account being flagged incorrectly is lower than one in one trillion.”

The database of child sexual abuse imagery that Apple would check against is not controlled by a single entity or government, Apple added.

Apple’s plan almost immediately drew intense criticism from security experts, human rights groups, civil liberties advocates, and others over concerns it would pose threat to privacy, security, freedom, and open up doors to more government surveillance.

“This sort of tool can be a boon for finding child pornography in people’s phones,” John Hopkins University professor and cryptographer Matthew Green, an outspoken critic of Apple, wrote on Twitter when the plan was introduced. “But imagine what it could do in the hands of an authoritarian government?”

Green supported the delay of the program.

It’s reported that Apple had made compromises with the Chinese communist regime to keep its business in China.

By Li Hai

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