Apple SVP addresses concerns over new features
Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, Craig Federighi, said in an interview published on Friday that the company’s announcement of new tools was “jumbled pretty badly”, but assured that, unlike other cloud providers, Apple doesn’t scan everything in a user’s online account.
“We, who consider ourselves absolutely leading on privacy, see what we are doing here as an advancement of the state of the art in privacy, as enabling a more private world. […] We wish that this would’ve come out a little more clearly for everyone because we feel very positive and strongly about what we’re doing,” Federighi told the Wall Street Journal.
Federighi explained that new tools for combatting child pornography are not a backdoor for the government to monitor user content. Instead, Apple is only alerted if a previously known illegal image is downloaded into iCloud. The photo database is constructed through the intersection of images from multiple child safety organizations.
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