Tech to scan cloud storage services is operated by Meta, Microsoft and Google, but Apple stopped development last year to focus on warnings for explicit images
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Australia’s online safety regulator is not swayed by Apple’s justification for abandoning the development of technology to scan its cloud storage services for images of child abuse, saying a standard to force the company to develop it is on the way.
Last week, Wired reported a letter Apple had sent to a child safety group called Heat Initiative in response to the group’s calls to force Apple to scan its iCloud photos to combat child abuse outlining in detail, for the first time, Apple’s concerns about how the technology would be used.
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