“In this case, though, Apple is building the capability, and the only thing holding the company back is policy.”
Facebook filed 20.3 million CSAM reports in 2020. Apple filed 265. In San Bernardino, Apple’s best defence was that it couldn’t break into the phone even if it wanted to. Now it builds the scanner into every iPhone and promises to point it only at the right things. A promise is not a defence, and governments know how to change one.