Im not sure if im missing something here, but from what I understand, what Apple is proposing is an enormous privacy boon that seems to be completely misunderstood.
All cloud providers are required to, and do, make these scans.
The proposal provides a way for them to comply with that requirement, but at the same time, allows them to completely lock themselves out of being able to decrypt your data in the cloud, except in this specific case, secured and controlled by your device.
This means they couldn't comply with a nation states demand to secretly decrypt your data, even if they were legally compelled too, unless they change how the cryptography at play here works.
Which I expect, would not go unnoticed.
Am I missing something?
All cloud providers are required to, and do, make these scans.
The proposal provides a way for them to comply with that requirement, but at the same time, allows them to completely lock themselves out of being able to decrypt your data in the cloud, except in this specific case, secured and controlled by your device.
This means they couldn't comply with a nation states demand to secretly decrypt your data, even if they were legally compelled too, unless they change how the cryptography at play here works.
Which I expect, would not go unnoticed.
Am I missing something?