And why is this normal? Why can't they offer zero knowledge cloud storage? Encrypt before upload and decrypt after download. The less they know about the data, the less liable they are for anything. Data is and should be a massive liability for companies. They should aim to know as little as possible.
That’s changing the conversation isn’t it? The reality is cloud providers have been doing this for over a decade. This is the norm for better or worse.
Apple just now implemented this in the most privacy conscious way possible and it seems like they’re taking the brunt of the PR damage.
If anything this tells me Apple are trying to do the right thing whereas the other companies didn’t even bother trying.
That’s why it’s confusing when people are swearing off Apple and switching to . . . Google? Samsung?
Mega.io does CSAM compliance in a more privacy-friendly way: they scan their cloud day and night, but it is end-to-end encrypted, so the scan always returns exactly 0 results.
None. All the main ones scan your entire library of content you upload.
Apple’s solution is the most privacy conscious by far.