I'm fairly certain, based on things I've see while under NDA at other vendors with cloud offerings for media files, that other companies are running CSAM scanners, at the Government's request, on their servers. (The one's I've seen searched for known CSAM based on signatures and didn't try to use AI to guess if an image contained it.)
I think this Wired article is referring to scanning on the User's device. Apple may have wanted to do this so they could enable end-to-end encryption and still be able to comply with "secret" government requests.
I'm not sure why companies agree to do this scanning in the first place. Somehow our government applies pressure to the companies to add these scanners. And it's hard for be to believe that "CSAM" is all they're looking for.
I think this Wired article is referring to scanning on the User's device. Apple may have wanted to do this so they could enable end-to-end encryption and still be able to comply with "secret" government requests.
I'm not sure why companies agree to do this scanning in the first place. Somehow our government applies pressure to the companies to add these scanners. And it's hard for be to believe that "CSAM" is all they're looking for.