Apple Built a Backdoor Into Your iPhone With Its New Image Scanning Tools https://gizmodo.com/critics-say-apple-built-a-backdoor-into-your-iphone-wit-1847438624

Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel for the ACLU's
Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, told Gizmodo via email that she is concerned about the potential implications of the photo scans: "However altruistic its motives, Apple has built an infrastructure that could be subverted for widespread surveillance of the conversations and information
we keep on our phones," she said. "The CSAM scanning capability could be repurposed for censorship or for identification and reporting of content
that is not illegal depending on what hashes the company decides to, or is forced to, include in the matching database. For this and other reasons, it
is also susceptible to abuse by autocrats abroad, by overzealous government officials at home, or even by the company itself."

The privacy-focused Electronic Frontier Foundation noted "All it would take
to widen the narrow back door that Apple is building is an expansion of the machine learning parameters to look for additional types of content, or a
tweak of the configuration flags to scan, not just children's, but anyone's accounts. That's not a slippery slope; that's a fully built system just
waiting for external pressure to make the slightest change".

"India McKinney, director of federal affairs for EFF, raised another
concern: the fact that both tools are un-auditable means that it's
impossible to independently verify that they are working the way they're supposed to be working."

"Once they roll this system out and start pushing it onto the phones, who's
to say they're not going to respond to government pressure to start
including other things - political content, memes that depict political
leaders in unflattering ways, all sorts of other stuff."

Apple's software VP Sebastien Marineau-Mes acknowledged that knowledgeable "people have misunderstandings and more than a few are worried about the implications" of the new rollout, but that the company will continue to implement this back door for almost anyone into your personal iPhone
privacy.

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