A graphic artist paints a billboard for the smartphone manufacturer Apple, in Berlin. The company had announced last month that its iPhones and iPads would soon start detecting images containing child sexual abuse and reporting them as they are uploaded to its online storage in the United States. Apple, in announcing the delay on Friday, cited the feedback from customers, advocacy groups, researchers and others. “We have decided to take additional time over the coming months to collect input and make improvements before releasing these critically important child safety features,” the company said in a statement. The system, if and when it goes into use, would be “powered by a cryptographic technology” to determine “if there is a match without revealing the result”, unless the image was found to contain depictions of child sexual abuse.

Source: Bangkok Post September 03, 2021 14:03 UTC