Apple has delayed plans to scan iPhones and iPads to look for collections of child sexual abuse images after backlash from customers and privacy advocates, the tech giant said Friday.
“We absolutely value privacy and want to avoid mass surveillance in any form from government, but to fail children and fail the survivors of child sexual abuse by saying we’re not going to look for known rape videos and images of children because of some extreme future that may never happen just seems wholly wrong to me,” said Glen Pounder, chief operating officer of Child Rescue Coalition, a nonprofit that develops software to help law enforcement identify people downloading child sexual abuse...
"Prosecutors and law enforcement continue to face significant hurdles in the fight to end the abuse and exploitation of our society's most vulnerable victims," Bunn added.But privacy advocates, who had feared Apple’s plans had the potential of opening innocent tech users to needless inspection, celebrated Friday’s announcement.
, a professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Tel-Aviv University who specializes in privacy issues.Apple's effort seemed doomed from the start, with tech experts also saying the plan wasn't focused enough. Farid, who in 2009 developed the Microsoft tool PhotoDNA to help police and tech companies find and remove known images of child sexual exploitation, was particularly critical of Apple's plans that focused on images rather than video - which accounts for a majority of this abuse.
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