Experts recommend an important adjustment to Apple's planned measures regarding scanning photos on the iPhone.
Apple recently made headlines when the company announced plans to scan photos on iPhones to prevent child abuse. In the future, Apple wants to scan iPhones and iMessages for child pornography content. The measures are due to come into force in a few weeks. – We reported .
According to Forbes, “scanning” for images containing child pornography occurs across all cloud and social media platforms. However, Apple accesses content that is stored directly on devices. A small but subtle difference that many users see as a threat to their privacy.
Now experts are referring to an iPhone setting for WhatsApp and declaring it “downright dangerous”.
Goodbye privacy?
Extremely critical of the privacy threatened by this project, WhatsApp boss Will Cathcart tweets his concerns:
Instead of focusing on making it easy for people to report content that's shared with them, Apple has built software that can scan all the private photos on your phone — even photos you haven't shared with anyone. That's not privacy.
— Will Cathcart (@wcathcart) August 6, 2021
“Instead of making it easier for people to report content shared with them, Apple created software that can scan all private images on your phone — even photos you haven't shared with anyone. That’s not privacy.”
Recommended setting
If you receive pictures or videos via WhatsApp or Telegram, iPhones store them in the device memory.
On the one hand, this is not impractical, but on the other hand, it is once again a point that Apple's announced measures are bringing into focus. You often receive images in group chats that you don't even want to receive, let alone save.
Forbes cybersecurity expert Zak Doffman recommends disabling this setting for WhatsApp.
To do this, open the messenger, select “Settings” and then “Chats”: Save to recordings > Move the lever until it turns gray.
This means that images and videos from messengers are no longer stored on the iPhone. This also means that you minimize the risk of having unwanted and problematic content stored on your iPhone.
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Source: futurezone.de , Forbes
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