Cheshta TaterCo-founder, Rightantra Ever since I started educating myself on child rights and welfare, I make it a point to take jibes at my parents on things they should or should not have done while raising me. Not that I have an issue with their parenting but just to pull their leg, as all family members do to one another. Last week, as my mother and I were on our way to a toy store to buy presents for a couple of six-year-olds, I was preparing myself. I had decided to correct my mother the moment she would ask for gifts based on the gender of the children.
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Anushka MehtaCo-Founder, Rightantra Apple Inc.’s controversial announcement in August, 2021 regarding the roll out of new child safety measures on iPhones and other products, saw varied reactions from child rights advocates and privacy experts. It was amidst such mixed reactions, that Apple decided to postpone the release of their measures limiting the spread of Child Sexual Abuse Material (“CSAM”), providing Apple with room to taken into account feedback from stakeholders.
For all the android users and others living in their own bubble, Apple proposed to implement tools within their devices to prevent sexual exploitation of children through technological communication. The proposed measures were to be in the content of iMessage communication through pictures and parental control; detection of CSAM on iCloud Photos and lastly, intervention by Siri during web searches related to CSAM. On one hand these measures were lauded as being critical steps in the fight against those trafficking CSAM, however, there has been an equal, if not larger, amount of criticism against the same. While security experts and privacy enthusiasts have appreciated Apple’s underlying well meaning intention, strong concerns about backdoor surveillance as well as undermining the necessity of end-to-end encryption. The reason why this is so shocking is because Apple has always valued the privacy of its users above all, but these proposed measures boil down to the age-old question, whether the privacy of a child or another user can be compromised in the name of protection? |
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