The claim in this headline is completely unsubstantiated. The article claims that Apple never actually said they were killing their CP scanning plan, but they did say that, "We have further decided to not move forward with our previously proposed CSAM detection tool for iCloud Photos." Dec 7 2022

Here you have the only large US tech company that offers end to end encryption for all user data and you're spreading FUD.

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When you open an image in macOS, the system makes an online request to an apple server. That is spying.

What you're saying can be achieved with a pre-trained model. No need to send data from your own files to Apple.

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Apple Has Begun Scanning Your Local Image Files Without Consent

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Before assuming they're spying on you, this is probably downloading an AI model to support the new search-in-photos feature of Finder. So you can type "dog" and it'll find pictures of dogs on your drive, recognized using local ML.