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Apple regretted confusion over ‘iPhone scanning
Apple said the automatic tool announcement to detect child sexual abuse on the iPhone and iPad “mixed is pretty bad”.
On 5th of August , the company reveals new image detection software that can remind Apple if it is known illegal images uploaded to the iCloud storage.
The Privacy group criticized the news, with some say Apple had created the back door of security in its software.
The company said the announcement had been “misunderstood”.
“We hope this has come out a little clearer for everyone,” said Head of Apple Software Craig Federighi, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
He said it – in the back – introducing two features at the same time was “recipe for this kind of confusion”.
What is the new tool?
They announced two new tools designed to protect children. They will be deployed in the US first.
Image detection
The first tool can identify the known child’s sex abuse material (CSAM) when users upload photos to iCloud storage.
The US national center for lost and exploited children (NCMEC) maintains a database from illegal child abuse images known. It saves it as a hashhes – “digital fingerprint” from illegal material.
Cloud service providers like Facebook, Google and Microsoft, have checked the pictures against this hash to ensure people don’t share CSAM.
Craig Federighi.
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Chairperson of the CaptionApple software image Craig Federighi said the message had “mixed”
Apple decided to implement a similar process, but said it would make an image match on the iPhone or iPad user, before uploaded to iCloud.
Mr. Federighi said the iPhone would not check things like photos of your children in the bathroom, or look for pornography.
The system can only match the “right fingerprint” from a picture of certain child sexual abuse, he said.
If the user tries to upload multiple images that match the fingerprint child harassment, their account will be marked to Apple so that specific images can be reviewed.
Mr Federighi said users must upload in the region 30 suitable images before this feature will be triggered.
Message filtering
In addition to iCloud tools, Apple also announces parental control that users can activate their children’s accounts.
If activated, the system will check the photos sent by – or to – children through the Apple iMessage application.
If the machine’s learning system considers that the photo contains nudity, it will obscure photos and warn the child.
Parents can also choose to receive a warning if the child chooses to see photos.
Critics
Privacy groups have shared concerns that technology can be expanded and used by authoritarian government to spy on its own citizens.
WhatsApp Head Will Cathcart called Apple’s Move “greatly about” while the US Whistleblower Edward Snowden said the iPhone “SpyPhone”.
Mr. Federighi said “Soundbyte” spread after the announcement was that Apple scans iPhone for images.
“That’s not what happened,” he told the Wall Street Journal.
“We feel very positive and strong about what we do and we can see that it has been much misunderstood.”
This tool will be added to the iOS and iPados versions later this year.
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