A recent blog post by developer Jeff Johnson has brought to light a new feature in Apple's Photos app within the recently launched iOS 18.

Titled “Enhanced Visual Search,” this toggle permits iPhones to transmit photo data to Apple by default, raising concerns about user privacy and data-sharing practices.

  • Mikina@programming.devEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Tbh I’m not sure, I vaguely remember that hashes did play a role in how chatcontrol works, but I think it wasn’t looking just for 1:1 match of known illegal content, but also for some signs? I remember reading that it had awfully high false-positive rate, which someone has to check. https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/

    According to the Swiss Federal Police, 80% of the reports they receive (usually based on the method of hashing) are criminally irrelevant. Similarly in Ireland only 20% of NCMEC reports received in 2020 were confirmed as actual “child abuse material”.