Apple Has Announced A New Feature To Ensure Parental Control System Effectiveness!

Mobile giant Apple has announced the arrival of a new feature in iCloud that will be effective against child abusing and parental control. We all use online storage such as google drive, one drive, and for IOS users apple has Icloud is an online storage service. 

The company has taken some steps to stop child abusing. They have released an official memo saying that now the photos and videos stored in iCloud will be tested by the child abuse detection system. Apple officials said the system will roll out later this year with the release of iOS 15.

iPhone users’ Icloud will be checked fully by this new child abuse detection system and will take legal actions on the user containing any such images or videos. The disclosure came in a series of media briefings in which Apple is seeking to dispel alarm over its announcement last week that it will scan users’ phones, tablets, and computers for millions of illegal pictures.

Apple is not the only company working on such issues. Tech giants like Google and Microsoft are already working on child abuse. They use a technology that checks the uploaded videos or images or emails attachments against a database of identifiers provided by the National Centre For Missing And Exploited Child and other clearinghouses, security experts faulted Apple’s plan as more invasive.

Sources said that Government is trying to seek control over Apple users’ data through this step and this action has been taken by the company under government pressure. Apple has replied to this claim that the company will always refuse these kinds of proposals which degrades privacy. In posting to its website on Sunday, the company said that it would fight any such attempts which can occur in their secret courts.

Well, users are now keen to know when this feature will come into action. In the briefing on Monday, Apple has said that the company will bring the feature during the release of the IOS 15 operating system. Julie Cordua, chief executive of Thorn, a group that has developed technology to help law enforcement officials detect sex trafficking, said about half of child sexual abuse material is formatted as video.

Though Apple has said that the company won’t check the videos or images before being uploaded to the cloud. But the company has given some indications that they can bring this feature in the future. 

It has been said that international pressure on the company has made Apple take this step. Some European jurisdictions are debating legislation to hold platforms more accountable for the spread of such material. Company executives argued on Monday that on-device checks preserve privacy more than running checks on Apple’s cloud storage directly. 

Among other things, the architecture of the new system does not tell Apple anything about a user’s content unless a threshold number of images has been surpassed, which then triggers a human review. The executives of the company have taken the risk of false sites and apps which claims to be of child report but can attack the user’s phone. The company has asked users to be aware of any such app. Though these attacks are very rare and that in any case, a review would then look for other signs of criminal hacking.