> "Can't our phones recognise parts of a body and stop the image being taken?" she asks. "That's the challenge I want companies such as Apple to take up, to stop technology being a mechanism by which our children's innocence is being stolen. Because, you know, the statistics say that one in six people have had unwanted sexual attention as a child. One in six. I cannot think of a crime that is more important. Can you?"
It's strange to see this case dug up from 2017 asking for Apple to make tech to stop these crimes. Technology isn't moral and doesn't discriminate in application. As important as this cause is, I would look in many, many places before coming to a conclusion that no one can have privacy and that scanning everyone's devices 'just in case' is ok. That future, I imagine is worse.
It's strange to see this case dug up from 2017 asking for Apple to make tech to stop these crimes. Technology isn't moral and doesn't discriminate in application. As important as this cause is, I would look in many, many places before coming to a conclusion that no one can have privacy and that scanning everyone's devices 'just in case' is ok. That future, I imagine is worse.