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The article has some conflicting information:

Users photos, converted into a string of numbers through a process known as hashing, will be compared with those on a database of known images of child sexual abuse.

and

The system has been trained on 200,000 sex abuse images collected by the US non-profit National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

So which is it? If it was only hashing the image files and comparing the hashes to a known database, that would still be an invasion of privacy but not nearly as bad. It would make the amount of false positives very low too. If it's actually using Machine Learning to scan image content that's definitely going to produce false positives that are sent to Apple to be reviewed.

The article (and the name neuralMatch) sure seems to indicate it's the latter, so idk why they included the line about hashing.

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