There is also the other thing with imessage scanning. It seems ripe for abuse, for example a husband forcing it on every family member including the spouse (and forcing a fake DOB).
Using Apple devices used to be all about how they serve the user to bring joy. Knowing they now spend even a single cpu instruction on trying to frame the user turns the device from something I loved to something I fear.
All the talk about human review and multiple failsafes does not smooth things over. App store review is a prime example of how their review process can be seriously flawed - scam apps and subscriptions sometimes even being FEATURED in editorials on the app store.
It does not matter that you will be found innocent in the end. Just being put under investigation for csam can make anyone's a life living hell. Getting your AppleID blocked, even if temporary, can cause severe problems.
When a company advertises that "what happens on your phone stays on your phone", and then proceeds to build snitchware into the phone that reports on received imessages to the "family head of household" and reports and UPLOADS photo roll items that were never intended to be shared, to human review, well... that company does not appear to be honest anymore.
> There is also the other thing with imessage scanning. It seems ripe for abuse, for example a husband forcing it on every family member including the spouse (and forcing a fake DOB).
In addition, this only works for <18 accounts. If the abusive figure goes as far as making other family members recreate Apple IDs and lie about their age every 5 years to keep getting access to iMessage (and other parental controls like screen time) then there's not much Apple can do.
In that iMessage scenario, the family member has to explicitly approve sharing anything with the adult on the iCloud account. Nothing happens automatically.
No I didn't. Even if someone is under age and gets nudity messaged to them with this feature enabled, they have explicitly opt into sending it to their parent. Otherwise, nobody sees it.
Using Apple devices used to be all about how they serve the user to bring joy. Knowing they now spend even a single cpu instruction on trying to frame the user turns the device from something I loved to something I fear.
All the talk about human review and multiple failsafes does not smooth things over. App store review is a prime example of how their review process can be seriously flawed - scam apps and subscriptions sometimes even being FEATURED in editorials on the app store.
It does not matter that you will be found innocent in the end. Just being put under investigation for csam can make anyone's a life living hell. Getting your AppleID blocked, even if temporary, can cause severe problems.
When a company advertises that "what happens on your phone stays on your phone", and then proceeds to build snitchware into the phone that reports on received imessages to the "family head of household" and reports and UPLOADS photo roll items that were never intended to be shared, to human review, well... that company does not appear to be honest anymore.