A player at Roland-Garros was allowed to continue her match — and ended up winning it — after she threw her racquet and it bounced into the stands, the latest in a series of episodes involving professional tennis players who take their anger out on their equipment . Irina-Camelia Begu, a 31-year-old Romanian who is …
Encrypted messenger services have been quick to condemn the Commission’s proposal. Julia Weiss, a spokesperson for the Swiss messenger app Threema, says the company was not willing to undermine its users’ privacy in any way. “Building a surveillance system to proactively scan all private content was a terrible idea when Apple proposed it, and it’s …
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“That being so there is only one logical solution: client-side scanning where the content is examined when it is decrypted on the user’s device for them to view/read,” Woodward says. Last year, Apple announced it would introduce client-side scanning—scanning done on people’s iPhones rather than Apple’s servers—to check photos for known CSAM being uploaded to …
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To support MIT Technology Review’s journalism, please consider becoming a subscriber. Besides “bad press” there isn’t much punishment for platforms that fail to remove CSAM quickly, says Lloyd Richardson, director of technology at the Canadian Center for Child Protection. “I think you’d be hard pressed to find a country that’s levied a fine against an …
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