Critics of Apple's plans had warned, among other things, that an authoritarian state could try to smuggle pictures with political motives into the database in order to find out who had them on their iPhone.
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The function to search for child pornographic material is initially limited to iPhone users in the USA who use Apple's online storage service iCloud. It is not about analyzing the content of all existing images. Instead, a file with so-called hashes of known child pornographic content should be loaded onto the devices - a kind of digital fingerprint of the image. This means that a copy of the photo can be recognized when comparing with special procedures.
If there is a match, suspicious images are provided with a certificate, thanks to which Apple can exceptionally open them after uploading them to iCloud and subject them to an examination . The system only sounds the alarm when there are a certain number of hits. When it was first announced last week, Apple did not provide any information about how many matches the system would hit. On Friday, the group announced that the threshold should be around 30 images.
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After the first criticism, Apple had already assured that it would reject any attempts by governments to abuse the process to search for other content.
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At the same time, some cryptography experts and IT security researchers, among others, had criticized the fact that the creation of such a system alone opens up the possibility for authoritarian governments to require Apple to add other content to the database with the hashes and thus to conduct political surveillance.
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