The Heat Initiative campaign claims that Apple has quietly scaled back its plans to explore such material in 2021, impacting the safety of children worldwide. The campaign encourages Apple to detect, report and remove this content from iCloud, and to create a robust reporting mechanism that allows users to report such content.
Most interestingly, it faced backlash for Apple’s plans to scan child abuse content on iCloud in the past, and eventually dropped the feature due to user privacy concerns.
Source: Ferra
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