Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, August 6th 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

I try to explain this whole controversy around Apple scanning your photos.

Yelp will list businesses vaccination policies.

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And of course, the weekend long read suggestions.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Apple says in the next couple of months it will begin scanning photos on

iOS 15 and Mac OS Mauna ray devices in the US for known child abuse images quoting Tech Crunch.

Apple told Tech Crunch that the detection of child sexual abuse material,

also known as CSAM, is one of several new features aimed at better protecting the children who use

its services from online harm, including filters to block potentially sexually explicit photos

sent and received through a child's eye message

account. Another feature will intervene when a user tries to search for

CSAM related terms through Siri and search.

Most Cloud Services, Dropbox, Google,

and Microsoft to name a few already

scan user files for content that

might violate their terms of service

or be potentially illegal like CSAM, but Apple has long

resisted scanning users files in the cloud by giving users the option to

encrypt their data before it ever reaches Apple's iCloud servers.

Apple said its new CSAM detection technology,

neural hash, instead works on a user's device

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