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What's stopping them already...?

It operates on iCloud photos. Those are already scanned. If a nation state wanted to flex this before they could have done so.



That's a poor argument, and possibly some kind of fallacy.

'No one has done it before, so they probably won't do it in the future now that it we made it easier.'


It’s not easier though. They moved the scanning onto the device instead of doing it server side. That all.


Same reason you do not sue someone for patent infringement until it is too late for them to turn back?




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