CES2020: Apple is now scanning your iCloud photos for child exploitation

Apple is now scanning all your photos stored in the iCloud for any signs of child exploitation.

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From this point on, any images backed up to the company’s online storage services, iCloud is to be screened and checked for any illegal activities.

“Apple is dedicated to protecting children throughout our ecosystem wherever our products are used, and we continue to support innovation in this space. As part of this commitment, Apple uses image-matching technology to help find and report child exploitation. Much like spam filters in email, our systems use electronic signatures to find suspected child exploitation. Accounts with child exploitation content violate our terms and conditions of service, and any accounts we find with this material will be disabled,” according to Jane Horvath, Apple’s chief privacy officer, [at CES 2020].

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