In this file photo taken on January 26, 2021 an employee works on smartphones reconditioning, mainly Iphone, at the Largo company headquarters which is a Back Market refurbishing company subcontractor, in Sainte-Luce-sur-Loire, outside Nantes. Apple on August 13 defended new child protection features that would check images uploaded to its cloud storage and on its messaging platform, rejecting concerns the updates pose threats to privacy. (AFP)
SAN FRANCISCO – Apple on Friday defended new child protection features that would check images uploaded to its cloud storage and on its messaging platform, rejecting concerns the updates pose threats to privacy.
“We can see that it’s been widely misunderstood,” the US tech giant’s software chief Craig Federighi said of the update rollout in an interview with the Wall Street Journal published Friday.
Last week, Apple unveiled two features to debut on iPads and iPhones in the United States.
One can identify child sexual abuse images uploaded to its iCloud storage, while the other uses machine learning to recognize and warn children and their parents when receiving or sending sexually explicit photos on Apple’s texting app, Messages, the company said in the statement.
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Federighi said the new tools do not make Apple’s systems and devices less secure or confidential.
“We wanted to be able to spot such photos in the cloud without looking at people’s photos,” he said, adding Apple wanted to “offer this kind of capability… in a way that is much, much more private than anything that’s been done in this area before.”
