25 sats \ 2 replies \ @l0k18 16 Jan 2023 \ on: Apple Has Begun Scanning Your Local Image Files Without Consent bitcoin
Sharing the recognition matrix diff your data creates is still as good as sharing the data, just it isn't sharing the explicit bytes of your data, the recognition engine can still tag that update and associate it with you and later on that specific diff can be used to recognise images of whatever was in your stuff.
It's no different to the situation with NSA bulk surveillance and the introduction of TLS/SSL everywhere. Turned out that the metadata was more valuable than the data it referred to.
Unless they make this update uploading optional they are still spying on you.
Anyone who trusts a company that so clearly has such influence on legislation has rocks in their heads. And that goes double for a company that is friendly with the CCP.
Where's the evidence that they're uploading user data of any kind to Apple? All the article shows is that a daemon on macOS is communicating with a server.
It could just be downloading an updated model. Or downloading configuration params. Or doing literally anything.
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It's talking to something. It's making requests. The software was already installed so either it's sending or receiving data related to the image recognition engine. I doubt it will be easy to grab the cleartext in memory too.
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