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Apple can scan your photos for child abuse and still protect your privacy – if the company keeps its promises

  • Written by Mayank Varia, Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, Boston University
Apple can scan your photos for child abuse and still protect your privacy – if the company keeps its promisesIf you have an Apple device and upload photos to iCloud, the company will use some clever math to sniff them for instances of child abuse – without actually looking at the photos.Vinicius "amnx" Amano/Unsplash

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