The ability to avoid decrypting and mining your entire photo library in order to comply with us law. Instead performing a hash match on the device that gives their compliance team a partial key to decrypt only the images in question to confirm it wasn’t a false positive.

Mean while on a google pixel, google will just scan your entire library.

But iCloud is NOT encrypted, specifically because the FBI told them not to.

source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

They are encrypted. Apple explained that. The article you referred to was for backups not iPhoto libraries.

Could you source Apple’s explanation, that you read?

It’s pretty common knowledge that most of iCloud (including Photos) is not E2E encrypted; in fact, here’s the proof right from Apple - https://support.apple.com/en-ae/HT202303.

> Mean while on a google pixel, google will just scan your entire library.

Google doesn’t scan anything on Pixel phones. Only photos and files that you upload to Google Photos or Drive. This is standard industry practice, and apparently Apple wasn’t doing that. So now they built this client side system that nobody else has, and created local surveillance.