Apple to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child abuse
3 years, 5 months ago

Apple to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child abuse

The Hindu  

Apple unveiled plans to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child abuse, drawing applause from child protection groups but raising concern among some security researchers that the system could be misused by governments looking to surveil their citizens. The tool Apple calls “neuralMatch” will detect known images of child sexual abuse without decrypting people’s messages. “Researchers have been able to do this pretty easily.” Tech companies including Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others have for years been sharing “hash lists” of known images of child sexual abuse. “With so many people using Apple products, these new safety measures have lifesaving potential for children who are being enticed online and whose horrific images are being circulated in child sexual abuse material.” Julia Cordua, the CEO of Thorn, said that Apple’s technology balances “the need for privacy with digital safety for children.” Thorn, a non-profit founded by Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, uses technology to help protect children from sexual abuse by identifying victims and working with tech platforms.

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Apple sued for dropping CSAM detection features from services, devices
1 month ago

Apple sued for dropping CSAM detection features from services, devices

Firstpost  

Announced in 2021, the plan was for Apple to scan images on iCloud for child abuse material using on-device technology. While Apple retained a nudity-detection tool for its Messages app, the CSAM detection feature was dropped in 2022 amid privacy and security concerns The latest lawsuit argues that Apple’s decision has perpetuated the sharing of illegal material online and broken …

AI Images Are Spreading, Law Enforcement Is Racing to Stop Them
2 months, 2 weeks ago

AI Images Are Spreading, Law Enforcement Is Racing to Stop Them

Associated Press  

A disturbing trend of child sexual abuse imagery created through artificial intelligence technology is gaining momentum across the United States. Law enforcement agencies are working aggressively to stop these offenders, with several cases involving AI-generated images leading to arrests and charges. The spread of child sexual abuse images generated through AI tools poses a significant threat to children, and lawmakers …

AI-generated child sexual abuse images are spreading. Law enforcement is racing to stop them
2 months, 2 weeks ago

AI-generated child sexual abuse images are spreading. Law enforcement is racing to stop them

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Justice Department officials say they're …

AI-generated child sex abuse content increasingly found on open web – watchdog
2 months, 3 weeks ago

AI-generated child sex abuse content increasingly found on open web – watchdog

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy AI-generated child sexual abuse content is increasingly being found on publicly accessible areas …

San Francisco goes after websites that make AI deepfake nudes of women and girls
4 months, 3 weeks ago

San Francisco goes after websites that make AI deepfake nudes of women and girls

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The proliferation of these images …

AI image-generators are being trained on explicit photos of children, a study shows
1 year ago

AI image-generators are being trained on explicit photos of children, a study shows

Associated Press  

Hidden inside the foundation of popular artificial intelligence image-generators are thousands of images of child sexual abuse, according to a new report that urges companies to take action to address a harmful flaw in the technology they built. LAION, which stands for the nonprofit Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network, said in a statement that it “has a zero tolerance policy …

Study shows AI image generators being trained on explicit photos of children
1 year ago

Study shows AI image generators being trained on explicit photos of children

LA Times  

David Thiel, chief technologist at the Stanford Internet Observatory, wrote its report that discovered images of child sexual abuse in the data used to train artificial intelligence image generators. LAION said in a statement that it “has a zero tolerance policy for illegal content and in an abundance of caution, we have taken down the LAION datasets to ensure they …

UK focuses on child safety at the start of new online regime
1 year, 2 months ago

UK focuses on child safety at the start of new online regime

The Hindu  

Britain's communications regulator said tech companies must focus on protecting children from abuse, grooming and pro-suicide content, in its first steps as the enforcer of online safety. Ofcom, which gained new powers when the Online Safety Act came into law last month, said children were a key priority. Chief Executive Melanie Dawes said Ofcom was wasting no time in setting …

AI-generated child sexual abuse images could flood the internet; UK watchdog calls for action
1 year, 2 months ago

AI-generated child sexual abuse images could flood the internet; UK watchdog calls for action

The Hindu  

The already-alarming proliferation of child sexual abuse images on the internet could become much worse if something is not done to put controls on artificial intelligence tools that generate deepfake photos, a watchdog agency warned on Tuesday. In a written report, the U.K.-based Internet Watch Foundation urges governments and technology providers to act quickly before a flood of AI-generated images …

AI-generated child sexual abuse images could flood the internet. Now there are calls for action
1 year, 2 months ago

AI-generated child sexual abuse images could flood the internet. Now there are calls for action

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — The already-alarming proliferation of child sexual abuse images on the internet could become much worse if something is not done to put controls on artificial intelligence tools that generate deepfake photos, a watchdog agency warned on Tuesday. If it isn’t stopped, the flood of deepfake child sexual abuse images could bog investigators down trying to rescue children …

Child abuse images created by AI is making it harder to protect victims as law enforcement find it more difficult to identify whether real children are at risk, National Crime Agency warns
1 year, 5 months ago

Child abuse images created by AI is making it harder to protect victims as law enforcement find it more difficult to identify whether real children are at risk, National Crime Agency warns

Daily Mail  

Child abuse images created by artificial intelligence have made it harder to protect victims, the National Crime Agency warned yesterday. The increasing use of realistic AI-generated child pornography has given law enforcement agencies issues over identifying whether real children are at risk. Graeme Biggar, who became the NCA's permanent director-general last summer, warned that the computer-generated images flooding the internet …

Internet Watch Foundation confirms first AI-generated child sex abuse images
1 year, 5 months ago

Internet Watch Foundation confirms first AI-generated child sex abuse images

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The organisation – which works to identify and remove online …

Australia takes aim at Apple, Microsoft over child protection online
2 years ago

Australia takes aim at Apple, Microsoft over child protection online

The Hindu  

An Australian regulator, after using new powers to make the tech giants share information about their methods, accused Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. not doing enough to stop child exploitation content on their platforms. The e-Safety Commissioner, an office set up to protect internet users, said that after sending legal demands for information to some of the world's biggest internet …

UK cybersecurity chiefs back Apple’s controversial photo-scanning feature
2 years, 5 months ago

UK cybersecurity chiefs back Apple’s controversial photo-scanning feature

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Ian Levy, the NCSC’s technical director, and Crispin Robinson, the director of cryptanalysis, claim that a controversial …

An EU Law Could Let US Prosecutors Scan Phones for Abortion Texts
2 years, 7 months ago

An EU Law Could Let US Prosecutors Scan Phones for Abortion Texts

Wired  

The drive to protect children online will soon collide with an equal and opposing political force: the criminalization of abortion. And while many of us might sign up for a future in which algorithms magically detect harm to children, even the EU admits that scanning would require “human oversight and review.” The EU fails to address the mathematical reality of …

Apple rolls out iPhone message scanning feature to keep children safe from harmful images in UK
2 years, 8 months ago

Apple rolls out iPhone message scanning feature to keep children safe from harmful images in UK

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The tool is referred to by Apple as “expanded protections for children” and lives within the Messages …

We Need to Talk About How Apple is Normalising Surveillance
3 years, 2 months ago

We Need to Talk About How Apple is Normalising Surveillance

Wired  

Among tech giants, Apple stands out for its insistence on offering privacy features instead of joining its competitors in the exploitation of users’ personal data. Apple CEO Tim Cook recently clashed with Facebook on exactly those grounds – making a point, during a podcast interview, of defending privacy over the social network’s data-hungry ad-based model. Apple recently rolled out a …

Apple’s child sex-abuse scanning tool is too clever for its own good: Tae Kim
3 years, 4 months ago

Apple’s child sex-abuse scanning tool is too clever for its own good: Tae Kim

Live Mint  

Apple Inc.’s plan to scan iPhones for child-abuse images is past the point of repair. After facing pressure from governments to do more to battle child pornography and exploitation, Apple unveiled its plan last month to offer three new tools. They included the ability for parents to be notified when their children receive or send explicit photos over Apple Messages, …

After criticism, Apple to only seek abuse images flagged in multiple nations
3 years, 4 months ago

After criticism, Apple to only seek abuse images flagged in multiple nations

The Hindu  

After a week of criticism over a its planned new system for detecting images of child sex abuse, Apple Inc said on Friday that it will hunt only for pictures that have been flagged by clearing houses in multiple countries. After previously declining to say how many matched images on a phone or computer it would take before the operating …

After Criticism, Apple to Only Seek Abuse Images Flagged in Multiple Nations
3 years, 4 months ago

After Criticism, Apple to Only Seek Abuse Images Flagged in Multiple Nations

News 18  

After a week of criticism over its planned new system for detecting images of child sex abuse, Apple said on Friday that it will hunt only for pictures that have been flagged by clearinghouses in multiple countries. After previously declining to say how many matched images on a phone or computer it would take before the operating system notifies Apple …

Apple's child safety feature explained
3 years, 4 months ago

Apple's child safety feature explained

The Hindu  

On August 5, Apple announced a new feature to limit spread of sexually explicit images involving children. Apple’s child protection feature is an on-device tool that will warn children and their parents whenever a child receives or sends sexually explicit images. Even though Apple’s intention to combat child pornography is laudable, the company’s latest feature has come under strong criticism …

Apple's own employees are not happy with its move to scan users phones for child sexual abuse images
3 years, 4 months ago

Apple's own employees are not happy with its move to scan users phones for child sexual abuse images

India Today  

Apple’s decision to scan users’ iPhones for child sexual abuse content has kicked up a storm. The privacy advocates and even WhatsApp head Will Cathcart have voiced their opinion against Apple’s move to scan people’s phones for child sexual abuse content. The feature could be used to track things that could be unrelated to child sexual abuse and people could …

Apple defends scanning iPhones for child abuse images, saying algorithm only identifies flagged pics
3 years, 4 months ago

Apple defends scanning iPhones for child abuse images, saying algorithm only identifies flagged pics

Daily Mail  

Apple is pushing back against criticism over its plan to scan photos on users iPhones and in iCloud storage in search of child sexual abuse images. In a Frequently Asked Questions document focusing on its 'Expanded Protections for Children,' Apple insisted its system couldn't be exploited to seek out images related to anything other than child sexual abuse material. A …

WhatsApp chief says Apple’s new child safety feature “very concerning”
3 years, 5 months ago

WhatsApp chief says Apple’s new child safety feature “very concerning”

The Hindu  

WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart has called Apple’s new child safety feature very concerning and “a setback for people’s privacy”. “This is an Apple built and operated surveillance system that could very easily be used to scan private content tor anything they or a government decides it was to control,” he said. Expressing concerns over Apple's new scanning system, Tim Sweeney, …

WhatsApp says Apple's plan see iPhones scanned for images of child abuse as privacy setback
3 years, 5 months ago

WhatsApp says Apple's plan see iPhones scanned for images of child abuse as privacy setback

Daily Mail  

Cathcart said: The head of WhatsApp tweeted a barrage of criticism on Friday against Apple over plans to automatically scan iPhones and cloud storage for images of child abuse. At the same time Apple's texting app, Messages, will use machine learning to recognize and warn children and their parents when receiving or sending sexually explicit photos, the company said in …

WhatsApp head Will Cathcart hits out at Apple over its new system to detect child abuse photos in iPhones
3 years, 5 months ago

WhatsApp head Will Cathcart hits out at Apple over its new system to detect child abuse photos in iPhones

India Today  

Apple on Friday announced that it would roll out a new system for checking photos for child sexual abuse material on iPhones. However, Apple’s new move has not gone down well with the privacy advocates as well as the WhatsApp head Will Cathcart. Cathcart has alleged that Apple’s new surveillance system could very easily be used to scan private content …

Apple to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse
3 years, 5 months ago

Apple to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse

Associated Press  

Apple unveiled plans to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse, drawing applause from child protection groups but raising concern among some security researchers that the system could be misused, including by governments looking to surveil their citizens. I hope they say no, but their technology won’t say no.” Tech companies including Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others have …

Apple Brings NeuralMatch, Its Tool To Scan iPhones For Images Of Child Sexual Abuse
3 years, 5 months ago

Apple Brings NeuralMatch, Its Tool To Scan iPhones For Images Of Child Sexual Abuse

ABP News  

New Delhi: Apple Inc. has come up with a new tool that will scan iOS phones in the US for images of child sexual abuse, media reports said. Apple also has plans to scan encrypted messages on iPhones for sexually explicit content as an additional child safety measure alarming privacy advocates, AP reported. Various tech companies such as Microsoft, Facebook, …

Apple will scan iPhone for nude photos, will report user to police if it finds child porn
3 years, 5 months ago

Apple will scan iPhone for nude photos, will report user to police if it finds child porn

India Today  

Apple announced on Thursday that it would launch new software to analyse user’s iCloud Photos for images of child sexual abuse. As per Mark Gurman’s report on Bloomberg, Apple has also announced a feature to analyse each and every picture sent and received on the Messages app for child sexual abuse material. Mathew Green, an Associate Professor at the Johns …

Apple accused of creating 'backdoor' into iPhones with child abuse image scanning
3 years, 5 months ago

Apple accused of creating 'backdoor' into iPhones with child abuse image scanning

The Telegraph  

Apple has been accused by privacy campaigners of creating a “backdoor into people’s devices” with the introduction of iPhone photo scanning technology intended to thwart child pornography. The Electronic Frontier Foundation said the move came at a “high price for overall user privacy” and that its iMessage app was “no longer secure messaging”. On Thursday Apple said it would introduce …

iPhone to detect and report child sexual abuse images: Why security experts are calling it a bad idea
3 years, 5 months ago

iPhone to detect and report child sexual abuse images: Why security experts are calling it a bad idea

India Today  

In what could be termed as a major crackdown on child abusers, Apple, late on Thursday, announced that it would scan iPhone and iPad photo galleries for child abuse images. Additionally, Apple will also add a new tool to its iMessage app to warn children and their parents when sending or receiving sexually explicit photos. The Cupertino-based giant says both …

Fury at Apple's plan to scan iPhones for child abuse images
3 years, 5 months ago

Fury at Apple's plan to scan iPhones for child abuse images

Daily Mail  

How Apple will scan your phone for 'child abuse images' - and send suspicious photos to a company employee who will check it before sending them to police The new image-monitoring feature is part of a series of tools heading to Apple mobile devices, according to the company. The new safety tools will also be used to look at photos …

Apple may soon scan your iPhone for child abuse photos, here is how this will work
3 years, 5 months ago

Apple may soon scan your iPhone for child abuse photos, here is how this will work

India Today  

Apple might bring a rather dodgy feature into action tomorrow. A new tool will let Apple scan your photos stored in iCloud to check them against child sexual abuse material. Green writes that multiple people have confirmed to him about Apple's plan to launch a new scanning tool tomorrow. The most unsettling thought, however, is that Apple might start using …

Apple reveals it scans iCloud photos to check for child sexual abuse
5 years ago

Apple reveals it scans iCloud photos to check for child sexual abuse

Daily Mail  

Apple are scanning photos uploaded to its cloud service for signs of child abuse images, according to a senior privacy officer for the tech giant. Speaking at a panel at CES in Las Vegas, Jane Horvath said Apple uses specialist software to automatically screen iPhone images backed up to iCloud. Speaking at a panel at CES in Las Vegas, Jane …

Police ‘overwhelmed’ by child sex abuse image cases call for new approach as thousands of paedophiles seek help
5 years, 8 months ago

Police ‘overwhelmed’ by child sex abuse image cases call for new approach as thousands of paedophiles seek help

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Police leaders have called for …

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