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That feels tremendously easy to abuse.

As an obvious vector - an abusive husband can set up the account on their partners phone, set them up with a child account and "check" they are not sending anything suggestive. And we have no idea how reliable the scanning is for the sexting piece. A false positive notification could easily get some beaten, even possibly killed.

Scanning against a known database of material uploaded to iCloud didn't sound too terrible for me, but this sexting feature is incredibly dangerous.



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