Apple is a business and does indeed "want to know your shit" for many legitimate revenue-generating activities, such as growing their services business, a top priority for the company.
It seems to me a little bit suspect that they wanted to do clientside scanning as a prerequisite for e2ee, as if they simply would not be allowed to publish society-wide e2ee privacy software (without government/regulatory retaliation) without such a law enforcement backdoor. This screams of prior restraint and we should be loudly asking our legislators why the fuck the FBI is pressuring Apple about what software they do or do not publish.
Every day the US government takes more steps to erode our civil rights, even against the largest companies in the world. Someone needs to rein them in.
It seems to me a little bit suspect that they wanted to do clientside scanning as a prerequisite for e2ee, as if they simply would not be allowed to publish society-wide e2ee privacy software (without government/regulatory retaliation) without such a law enforcement backdoor. This screams of prior restraint and we should be loudly asking our legislators why the fuck the FBI is pressuring Apple about what software they do or do not publish.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
There is a major 1A violation happening here.
Every day the US government takes more steps to erode our civil rights, even against the largest companies in the world. Someone needs to rein them in.