This summer, Apple was singled out for wanting to read the iCloud content of all its users in search of CSAM. Under this acronym lies the termchild sexual abuse material, in other words child pornography files. Public opinion feared that possible governments would use this technology to spy on their citizens, for example in search of political opponents.
Unfortunately, according to a recent report fromNew York Times, everything suggests that this hypothesis is not just fiction. Indeed, members of the European Union have already expressed the idea of developing a similar tool in order to detect potential terrorists. A program that would have gone so far as to delve into the “encrypted devices” targets, in other wordslike Pegasus and others.
Was Apple inspired by the EU?
Worse: according toTimes, the European Union would have in fact raised these subjects even before Apple presented its own alternative. The research in question would have started last year, although a consensus has not yet been found. At least officially. Note that withmore than three million euros of lobbying on the Old Continent, Apple probably has its own offices in Parliament and could very well have known about the project.
According to the investigation by the American newspaper, the officials also had the objective of recognizing signs of “organized crime“. However, this is precisely a notion that is more than vague on the scale of more than twenty countries. Indeed, if in France anything relating to narcotics is, for example, often punishable by prison, other regions such as Portugal are more advanced in this area.
Watch out for your documents this Christmas
Still according to the same legislative sources, a bill aimed at generalizing the analysis of photos of residents could even be shared this year. It would then be even easier - for member countries - to adapt the text according to their own political positions. A real danger for privacy? This is undoubtedly what many Internet users fear.
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