Apple Privacy | SCANNING THROUGH YOUR PICTURES By Ivan Kam

Okay so remember how apple is always so adamant about your right to privacy and also protecting that right. Well, Apple has made some major changes at the core of that privacy issue, and the tagline here is. It is for the purpose of expanding protections for children just as a FYI. This is a controversial topic, so I do guarantee you that there are going to be at least two different sides, so I'm pretty sure they're going to be at least two different sites. All multiple takes on this, and with that in mind, let's not make it political, let's keep it as a political, as we are accustomed to doing on this tech channel here. So let's go ahead and talk about this child sexual abuse, material or CSAM, as tagged by apple, will have three parts.

One of them, which I as a parent- and I'm sure many of you will agree- is a fantastic idea, but essentially that option is where you get notified. If your child is either receiving or sending you know, naked pictures or sexually explicit images or things of that nature, so definitely no issues there again, most parent, if not all, will agree to the sound of that and the second one kind of touches up on Siri, and that would be where, if you are searching through your device for images that depict you know, child exploitation, you'll get a pop-up message warning you about the consequences you know attached to being involved. With anything of that nature, then of course there's the last part, which is the big one. Now I'm not going to go back through every single criminal case. Where you know, authorities were having a very hard time accessing iPhones.

All in many cases was simply unable to access iPhones of people who were suspected of crimes, but I do want to at least point you back to the 2015 San Bernardino attack and the ongoing FBI apple encryption dispute issue. This has made iPhone owners feel, like their privacy, was really taken at hand very well protected with apple, but now there will be scanning through your device as part of this CSAM effort, just to make sure that you don't have any pictures that can be deemed suspicious or pictures that may involve a type of child abuse or child exploitation which, if found they would lock your device, then forward that information over to the authorities and, of course this sounds very simple as a know, heck here, let's go ahead and get this done, but this is actually a very, very complicated issue. It goes beyond just you know catching these horrible people again. I, as a parent, completely understand we do want to put away these horrible people who commit these acts of you know: child exploitation, child abuse. We absolutely must put those people in jail so that they can rot into them for sure.

On the other hand, however, there's a privacy issue, even here in the US, where you have a lot of people who are very vocal about protecting just your right to privacy. You also do have other people who are willing to give up those rights just as long as it's for the greater good right. You know as long as it's to go out there and catch these criminals, so you have peopled a good example is when this came out right. So when it came out you had people saying hey, I don't have anything to hide right. I don't have anything to hide, I'm not a criminal.

If you know you can go ahead and go through my phone and check, if you can do this and catch some criminals go ahead and scan away, you have people that was the automatic first reaction. Then you had other people like well, you know what I do get that we need to catch these people, but at what cost? Because again the problem doesn't lie there. It doesn't lie to whether we should catch criminals or not, or these horrible people who abuse children or not. There needs to be some type of boundaries, because you have to keep in mind that we are dealing with a corporation right so who there needs to be some type of oversight. Committee, you know that can kind of overlook what corporations do and hold them accountable when in need be, and, of course, as you would imagine, I'm not saying that we shouldn't do this.

I'm saying that there should be some type of safeguards put in place. You know to protect the fundamental parts of that right to privacy, and this is because, if there isn't any type of you know, oversight or safeguards to protect kind of the fundamental parts of just your right to privacy, it kind of sets a dangerous. You know precedent, because if you deal, that would mean that we might end up with something like the patriot act. If you are familiar with that so right, we start with. You know just for the greater good right, but then the next time we make you know a little of adjustment, then something else, then something else until that right is completely gone right.

So today we're scanning your device, maybe next time in order to catch even more. Let's go ahead and scan your text uh. Maybe your phone calls uh. Maybe you know, so this might circle back into something like the patriot act, which becomes a little dangerous. Now I don't know whether you agree or disagree and of course I would love to have this serious conversation with you all in the comment section to see where you stand with something like this.

If you care, if you don't care, if you agree you disagree, I would love to get that back and forth going with you down in the comment section but anyway. So this is all happening now and happening kind of fast too. If you think about it, I mean I know, they've been working on it for a while, and they'll be deploying this thing in the fall. You do have the option right. You know, someone might say hey if you don't like it just buy a different phone, you know, buy a phone that is non-apple or buy a tablet.

That is non-apple because they will be doing this. I believe on multiple. You know across all of their devices, and they can do that and also another thing I need to add is this is definitely not new. It's just that you know we keep moving the goal post right, so they scan when you upload things to the cloud they do that scanning there already, and I believe other companies do that also, but now they're coming down to your device. So we don't know what's going to be next, and this is kind of ironic, because Steve Jobs, one of the founders of apple himself, the godfather of mobile tech, if we could call him that himself kind of sent a warning about the looming threat over our privacy during that very well-known conference, the all things digital conference- and this was back in 2010, and he did then say something that is kind of going along with what's happening now, and here's a quick quote from him.

I believe people are smart and smart people want to share more data than other people do, which is true. It's very true just like I said earlier right, so you have people who are willing to give up that right or give up data or whatever you're asking as long as it's for greater good right. It's a very noble way to approach things right. Furthermore, it's like hey as long as we could get rid of all of these bad things. You know you could go ahead and do it, but you also do have other people who like well.

I do agree that we need to do that. But where are the boundaries we need to set some boundaries, some safeguards just in case, because these are your fundamental rights but anyway, so he continues. Ask them! Ask them every time make them tell you to stop asking them if they are tired of you asking them. Let them know precisely what you are going to do with their data now. That also sounds good right, but it's just very complicated because it's just not about the knowing it's about the knowing it about what will happen in the future right.

So just them telling you listen, we're going to be scanning your phones just to go through all of your pictures, all your images just to make sure that everything is good. They're telling you that they're going to do that right. So fine, okay, you can do that, but next time they can also come and say: hey. You know what we're just going to go through all your texts, we're just going to go through everything. You know everything that you own we're just gonna, go through just to make sure that there's nothing bad there.

Do you think this is gonna, be a problem? Does it matter to you, you know you don't care you're, just going to go with apple. Are you going to switch to a different provider? Let me know what you think of this issue in the comments section, I would love to chat with you about that share this video, of course, so we can really have a true conversation going. As I mentioned, let's stay as let's stick to the issue. Let's stay very apolitical with this, so that's the video today. Let me catch you in that comment section and, by the way, make sure to subscribe, if you're not subscribed just, yet I'm going to catch you in that comment section and up until then stay safe out.

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Source : Ivan Kam