Fixed further:
Chinese Government: Here is the NeuralHash for some child abuse imagery, please scan this user's phone and tell us if it's found.
Apple: Sure we found it.
Chinese Government to some western company/instititution: We have detected unacceptable behavior from your employee/student/client/vendor. Please cancel them, or we will stop funding you.
Replace Chinese with absolutely any government and that's what'll happen.
We're pretty much at a point where any hacker/leaker anywhere on earth is "found" to have committed sex crimes or have 300 gigabytes of child abuse on their computers.
Eventually Disney will be getting their hands in it to detect copyrighted content and then it's all over.
Pretty sad when you trust the "bad" guys more than the "good" guys.
I'm much less concerned with <random malware> on my device than I am with the governments of the world having access to it.
At least the motivations of the <random malware> are generally monetary and likely don't represent a significant threat to human rights and freedom of speech.
You're right, though the ability to detect copyrighted content has been around for a good while.
Although with this, I think it's more likely that Disney's executives and/or employees will be charged and arrested before that happens. I mean, with this track record...
Modi's Indian Government: This opposition leader is criticising us too much. Send him a child abuse imagery and ask Apple / Google to scan for it on his phone.
Apple / Google: We found it!
Modi's Indian Government: Let the defamation begin!
Google: 'Sharing is caring'. Thanks for sharing all of this with us Apple Inc! [0]
Amazon: Don't forget us too! [0]
To Downvoters: Are you telling me that this is false? Even worse for the Gmail users. [1] I guess the outrage was already overdue with these tech giants.
Chinese Government: Here is the NeuralHash for some child abuse imagery, please scan this user's phone and tell us if it's found.
Apple: Sure we found it.
Chinese Government: this user has unpermitted winnie the pooh memes. Send them to an internment camp.