It seems that Apple has decided to stop its CSAM plan of the revisions that it planned to implement of the photographs of its users looking for child pornography. There is no longer a trace of the controversial plan on Apple's website.
We do not know if at the moment it is a temporary withdrawal, looking for the best way to implement the system, or simply aborts the project. The fact is that the CSAM plan has disappeared from the child safety page of the official website Apple.
We have been talking for a few months now about the controversial project that Apple had in mind, to increase the security of the digital content of its devices. It is called CSAM plan Apple.
This plan wanted to use a combined first automatic and then manual system called neuralMatch to discover suspicious child abuse images in users' private photo libraries that keep them in iCloud.
The system intended to do an automatic digital scan of all the photos that a user saves in their iCloud account. If the server software detected a possible "suspicious" photograph of containing child pornography, it alerted a team of human reviewers for them to check.
If said reviewer saw possible child abuse in the image, Apple I would communicate it to the local authorities relevant. The company's intentions were obviously good, but the company's Privacy of people.
Shortly after Apple announced its CSAM plan, it faced a barrage of criticism from privacy groups, rights groups, and privacy organizations. Right to privacy. Even some groups of company employees joined in the negative reaction of their company's project.
Project stopped, not discarded
Now apple has erased from your page Child safety from its official website any indication of the CSAM project, planned to be launched in a future version of iOS 15. According to just published The VergeApple has not abandoned the CSAM project, but wants to see how it can modify it so that it is accepted by all those naysayers. Difficult has it.
