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diff --git a/content/blog/Apple-CSAM-scanning.md b/content/blog/Apple-CSAM-scanning.md @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +--- +title: Police to begin regular, warrant-free searches of homes for child abuse material +date: 2021-08-10 +--- + +The Federal Bureau of Investigations announced a new initiative today to combat +the proliferation of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) in the United States. +Starting next year, police will be conducting regular searches of US homes, as +often as once or twice per week per home, to find child sexual abuse materials. +This initiative will bring more child abusers to justice and help abuse victims +to find solace in the knowledge that records of their abuse are not being shared +in perpetuity. + +To facilitate frequent and convenient searches, the FBI will be working with +lock manufacturers to institute a new standard for home locks in the United +States which permits their use via a "master key", to be held securely by +authorized government employees only. These new locks will become mandatory for +all new homes next year, and a gradual process of retrofitting will take place +in existing homes with the goal of having the program up to its full throughput +no later than 2024. + +In response to questions raised by ~~child abuse apologists~~ concerned privacy +advocates, the director of the FBI stated in a press conference: + +> Of course, for citizens who do not possess images of child sexual abuse, there +> is no cause for concern. Search operatives will undergo a mandatory 2 hour +> training course, and will be instructed to disregard anything they find or +> learn in the course of their searches which does not involve CSAM. Through our +> partnership with industry leaders in home security, we will make the process +> as safe and convenient as possible, so that authorized officers may enter your +> home at any time and quietly conduct their business without disturbing your +> day. We are excited about this unprecedented opportunity to curb the +> distribution of child abuse material in this country. + +In short, government officials are confident that the possibility of having your +home searched at any time will ultimately pose little to no inconvenience to +Americans, particularly with respect to the things they choose to do, people +they choose to associate with, and things they say to their family and friends +in ~~the privacy of~~ their homes. + +The director also noted the numerous jobs which will be created to fill the +increased demand for officers, and petitioned congress for the appropriate +increase to their budget. + +--- + +...wait. This *is* happening, but I got some of the details wrong. + +It's not homes which are being searched, but the digital devices we use for all +of our communication and information storage and retrieval needs in contemporary +life. + +And it's not lock manufacturers that are making it possible, but Apple. + +And it's not police officers, but a proprietary machine learning algorithm that +no one understands. + +Oh, and it's not happening one or two times a week, but on an ongoing basis, +every time you use your device. + +I did get a few things, right though. The only thing which limits the scope of +searches will be whichever things Apple chooses to search or not to search. And +whatever Congress demands they repurpose the system to use. Ah — and it is +warrant-free. + +Won't you think of the children? + +[source](https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Technical_Summary.pdf)