09.08.2021 - 06:31 [ newsnationnow.com ]

Apple’s plan to scan iPhone images raises privacy concerns

(05.08.2021)

Apple intends to install software on iPhones sold in the United States to scan for child abuse imagery, raising alarm that the move could open the door to surveillance of millions of personal devices.

Liberty Vittert, a professor of data science at Washington University in St. Louis and the features editor of the Harvard Data Science Review, says this is “a cosmic shift in big tech monitoring.”