What makes you think that child porn is such an important problem, apart from rag articles on vague “Darknet”? Shouldn't all the phones get scanned for the evidence of tax evasion, a much more widespread crime? All those rich people dealing with offshore businesses have iPhones™, it's only natural to make Apple do their part as a honest member of society… I mean, honest corporation of society.
If you allow me to guesstimate wildly, most “child porn” these days, in a technical sense, is made by kids themselves having access to an internet-connected device with a camera. Sometimes it is extorted by despicable abusers, sometimes it is done for no one in particular, just for the perceived fame/popularity/likes on social services/etc. Big services have an army of moderating grunts to keep Victorian purity of blissfully ignorant common public intact, things are a bit different in poorer parts on the Net and on the Globe. Should we expect the naked selfie of a teenager sent to their significant other to automatically cause a police interrogation of the same teenager? What if the device is shared with older members of the family? Another man-made dystopia enabled by people who enjoy to express outrage over the racy stories in the media, and people who are too afraid to speak up.
In essence, Apple has introduced a software agent to signal whether you have files that belong the list someone provides. If I recall the scandal correctly, this is what Kaspersky allegedly (ab)used, and what other antivirus tools (including Microsoft's built-in and enabled-by-default Windows scanner that for some seemingly important reason nags all the time if uploading of files to Microsoft is disabled) surely enjoy offering to various agencies around the world.
I don't think you should worry about “China, Australia, and Saudi Arabia” so much, there's elephant in the room you don't like to notice.
If you allow me to guesstimate wildly, most “child porn” these days, in a technical sense, is made by kids themselves having access to an internet-connected device with a camera. Sometimes it is extorted by despicable abusers, sometimes it is done for no one in particular, just for the perceived fame/popularity/likes on social services/etc. Big services have an army of moderating grunts to keep Victorian purity of blissfully ignorant common public intact, things are a bit different in poorer parts on the Net and on the Globe. Should we expect the naked selfie of a teenager sent to their significant other to automatically cause a police interrogation of the same teenager? What if the device is shared with older members of the family? Another man-made dystopia enabled by people who enjoy to express outrage over the racy stories in the media, and people who are too afraid to speak up.
In essence, Apple has introduced a software agent to signal whether you have files that belong the list someone provides. If I recall the scandal correctly, this is what Kaspersky allegedly (ab)used, and what other antivirus tools (including Microsoft's built-in and enabled-by-default Windows scanner that for some seemingly important reason nags all the time if uploading of files to Microsoft is disabled) surely enjoy offering to various agencies around the world.
I don't think you should worry about “China, Australia, and Saudi Arabia” so much, there's elephant in the room you don't like to notice.