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kscherer
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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2021-08-20, 11:04

This thing keeps looking worse for Apple. Other than a couple organizations and the government (go figure) is there anyone onboard?

From the article:

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A foreign government could, for example, compel a service to out people sharing disfavored political speech. That's no hypothetical: WeChat, the popular Chinese messaging app, already uses content matching to identify dissident material. India enacted rules this year that could require pre-screening content critical of government policy. Russia recently fined Google, Facebook and Twitter for not removing pro-democracy protest materials.

We spotted other shortcomings. The content-matching process could have false positives, and malicious users could game the system to subject innocent users to scrutiny.

We were so disturbed that we took a step we hadn't seen before in computer science literature: We warned against our own system design, urging further research on how to mitigate the serious downsides....


Apple always complies with local laws. What's the difference between being ordered to remove an app and being ordered to update hashes?

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