The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-governmental organization based in California, wants to defend freedom on the internet. In particular, it ensures respect for the privacy of users and does not hesitate to challenge any company regarding dangerous confidentiality practices.
The EFF notably joined,last August, the camp of actors strongly criticizing the tools announced a few weeks ago by Apple wanting to fight against online child pornography. The EFF's position was already to alert the Californian firm to the risks in terms of respect for the privacy of iPhone and iCloud users specifically. The child pornography detection CSAM focuses exclusively on photos on iCloud.
On September 3,Apple announced the pause of the project. Which the EFF did not fail to welcome this weekend. But the organization did not just congratulate the Californian giant. She supported her position:
“But the company must go further than just listening, and drop its plans to put a backdoor into its encryption entirely.”
Here's the translation: “The company should not just listen (to the criticism) and go further than that, that is, completely abandon its plans to integrate a breach into its encrypted systems. ”
Apple has not yet communicated its intentions regarding its desire to fight against child pornography and for greater protection of children from sexual content. We just know for the moment that the tools initially planned to integrate the OS in the coming weeks will not be deployed.
Perhaps we will be entitled to reworked technologies for the detection of child pornography content by the end of 2021 or the beginning of 2022. Or, the Cupertino company could indeed no longer bring the subject back to the table before several years, if ever... What do you think?
Also read:
- CSAM: Apple’s head of privacy interviewed
- Child pornography: a potential weakness in Apple's CSAM system illustrated
- Child pornography detection: according to Craig Federighi, Apple lacked clarity
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