Though we were okay with Gmail doing the same because "hey, it's free!".
But I understand your concern here. All our lives are now digitalised and maybe stored forever somewhere and anything you do, even if completely benign, could be considered a crime in some country or even in your own country in a few years from now.
Your gmail messages live on Google's servers. It's not ok for them to scan everything, but it's completely different from Apple scanning your phone's content.
Suppose Apple flags some image in iCloud using a hash that was probably sent from the device. Do they currently have the capability to decrypt the image to check if the content is actually illegal before reporting it to the authorities without needing access to the physical device?
(Not trying to make a counter-argument to your comment. I genuinely don't get this part).
Hmm not sure what you mean. The hashes are shipped with iOS, and then (if parental controls are enabled) compared with the hashes computed against the unencrypted data on-device, and displays a warning to the user and their parents.
I'm not sure how the image is displayed on the parents' device - it could be sent from the child's device, or the image used to compute the hash that the child's image matched could be displayed.
I'm claiming they use the content of your messages to profile you and better target their ads until they stopped this practice in 2017 in favour of reading your email "for better product personalisation".
gmail (and any other web based email) needs to "read" the email content to provide a search function. If the same program also uses the content to pick some ads from the inventory then I'm personally ok with that.
That is different from searching them for illegal material based on what illegal implies at a given time and location.
nope. i’m not okay with Gmail doing that. in fact I’ve completed removed all google products from my life. i don’t need someone to constantly spy on me.
But I understand your concern here. All our lives are now digitalised and maybe stored forever somewhere and anything you do, even if completely benign, could be considered a crime in some country or even in your own country in a few years from now.