Facing possible legislation that would require messaging services to offer backdoors in end-to-end encryption, Apple is saying it would rather...
  • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t quite see it like that myself. If you want to potray yourself as a user privacy focused company then why would you even suggest such feature? Even if their intentions are purely to just protect children with zero malicious future plans they still know it’s going to have bad optics and be widely controversial. Headphone jack scandal they just plowed thru but picture scanning was too much

    • monad@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      they still know it’s going to have bad optics and be widely controversial

      How would they know that? It’s often hard to predict how users will react, sometimes your expectations are wrong.