{"id":882,"date":"2021-08-23T11:43:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T11:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/?p=882"},"modified":"2025-07-23T09:49:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:49:33","slug":"apple-already-scans-icloud-mail-for-csam-but-not-icloud-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/23\/apple-already-scans-icloud-mail-for-csam-but-not-icloud-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple already scans iCloud Mail for CSAM, but not iCloud Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/9to5mac-default.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>Apple has confirmed to me that it already scans <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/apple-mail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iCloud Mail<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/csam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CSAM<\/a>, and has been doing so since 2019. It has not, however, been scanning <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iCloud Photos<\/a> or iCloud backups.<\/p>\n<p>The clarification followed me querying a rather odd statement by the company\u2019s anti-fraud chief: that Apple was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2021\/08\/20\/apples-anti-fraud-chief-child-porn-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the greatest platform for distributing child porn<\/a>.\u201d That immediately raised the question: If the company wasn\u2019t scanning iCloud photos, how could it know this?<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"aapl,csam,privacy\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_featured\" data-post-id=\"746344\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2021\/08\/23\/apple-scans-icloud-mail-for-csam\/#more-746344\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has confirmed to me that it already scans iCloud Mail for CSAM, and has been doing so since 2019. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/23\/apple-already-scans-icloud-mail-for-csam-but-not-icloud-photos\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apple already scans iCloud Mail for CSAM, but not iCloud Photos<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gronzeltranik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}