Judge Wise Ruled for Apple on CSAM Liability, Then Called It Disturbing (blog.ericgoldman.org)
A federal lawsuit accused Apple of a design defect for never scanning iCloud for CSAM. In the thread, a commenter who mapped NeuralHash's actual architecture flipped that backstory: the on-device scanner was built specifically to make full iCloud encryption possible, not as an apology after 2021's backlash.
A rival cloud-storage founder in the same thread cut through the debate: client-side or server-side, every scanning method lands on the same "privacy rot," the exact tradeoff Judge Wise says now belongs to Congress, not Apple.
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