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Governments planned to misuse CSAM scanning tech even before Apple’s announcement

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<p>Governments were already discussing how to misuse <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/csam/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">CSAM[/url] scanning technology even before Apple announced its plans, say <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/security/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">security[/url] researchers.</p>
<p>The biggest concern raised when Apple said it would scan iPhones for child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) is that there would be spec-creep, with governments insisting the company scan for other types of images, and there now seems good evidence for this … </p>
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