and here is Apple's response after I sent something in with details of how they could fail. The leadership of NCMEC Looks great except there is not a singled medical expert on child abuse in the leadership. It is all lawyers and LEOs and software people. There are training programs for pediatricians who are experts in Child maltreatment. And of course Apple is ignoring them.

Dear Mr boerne,

Thank you for contacting Apple’s privacy team.

At Apple, our goal is to create technology that empowers people and enriches their lives — while helping them stay safe. We want to help protect children from predators who use communication tools to recruit and exploit them, and limit the spread of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM).

Apple is introducing new child safety features in three areas, developed in collaboration with child safety experts. These features are coming later this year in updates to iOS 15, iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, and macOS Monterey for users in the US.

Information on the expanded protections for children is available here:

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/

This document serves to address questions and provide more clarity and transparency on the process:

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/p..._Questions.pdf

Apple’s method of detecting known CSAM is designed with user privacy in mind. The new technology used allows Apple to provide valuable and actionable information to NCMEC and law enforcement regarding the proliferation of known CSAM. And it does so while providing significant privacy benefits over existing techniques since Apple only learns about users’ photos if they have a collection of known CSAM in their iCloud Photos account. Even in these cases, Apple only learns about images that match known CSAM.

For further information, please see the technology summary available at the following link:

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/p...gy_Summary.pdf

In addition, Apple has produced a technical summary on CSAM Detection, which is available here:

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/p...al_Summary.pdf

Kind regards,

Fiona Nolan
Apple Privacy

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