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It is closed source system. Nothing is stopping them doing it right now without telling it. And it might take years for someone to notice. All we can do is trust, and hope for their best intentions. Speculation is not strong argument in black box systems.


> It is closed source system. Nothing is stopping them doing it right now without telling it. And it might take years for someone to notice. All we can do is trust, and hope for their best intentions. Speculation is not strong argument in black box systems.

Yes, but ignoring the bad things that they tell you they're doing because they might be doing even worse things that they aren't telling you isn't a great stand to take.


If they move on into the speculated things, then we should take a stand. Current way is improvement what has been already happening.


Yes they can do it right now, but that would be illegal and couldn’t be used for any good. Now they make it legal- that’s the difference.


It has been legal for 10 years at least already. In-device scanning applies only into photos which are ending into the cloud.

https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCODE-2011-title18/USCO...




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