Oh yes, I’ve heard and read plenty of people argue that iCloud (and similar services) is 100% private because the “data is encrypted”. I bet the majority have no idea. If they even care.

Oh yeah I had forgotten. What a disaster.

That’s crazy. What a junk company. Wouldn’t use it unless together with Cryptomator or so but it just seems like a hassle and it just feels wrong to give them any money at all.

Thanks, but it says stopped, not cancelled. I read that as halted. The source they link to is behind a paywall. I haven’t seen an official statement about it.

Edit: here a link saying the information has been removed from the website but the “plans are unchanged” and it will come (1 year old however): https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/12/15/apples-hold-on-implementing-on-device-csam-photo-monitoring-may-be-permanent

That’s not why. People are just correcting you when you are wrong.

Icloud basic data like your password keychain or health data is end to end encrypted.

Documents and photos that you can upload if you want is encrypted but Apple has a key to it.

You can disable all that and make a 100% offline backup with a USB cable.

Source on it being cancelled? I think they just delayed it for a bit.

Also I’d rather just call it for what it is: a backdoor.

These news about them having all the data end to end encrypted is GREAT news though and would put them ahead of competitors like Google, Dropbox, Microsoft etc.

People need to understand that these cloud companies have the keys to your data even though it is encrypted.

There is no reason to doubt the cases are actually on the rise, that would be logical even. But the Chinese government will use this as an argument for even harder repression. That will be the main challenge for the people fighting for more freedom in general.

You think Adobe is just Photoshop…? It’s a massive company and web analytics is one of their biggest products.

Not sure what you’re on about but this war is one capitalist country attacking another capitalist country.